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Assembly Bill A6424

Signed By Governor

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides a claim-filing opportunity for the widows and dependents of workers who died as a result of cancer caused by exposure to diesel exhaust

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2021-A6424 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S661
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §16-a, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8883, S7203
2019-2020: A2677, S2436

2021-A6424 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a claim-filing opportunity for the widows and dependents of workers who died as a result of cancer caused by exposure to diesel exhaust.

2021-A6424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6424
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 17, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, PICHARDO, PERRY -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
   a  claim-filing  opportunity  for the widows and dependents of workers
   who died as a result of cancer caused by exposure to diesel exhaust

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as "the Nigro
 act".
   § 2. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new  section
 16-a to read as follows:
   §  16-A.  DEATH BENEFITS DUE TO DIESEL EXPOSURE. WHERE DEATH IS DUE IN
 WHOLE OR PART TO ANY CANCER  RESULTING  FROM  A  HAZARDOUS  EXPOSURE  TO
 DIESEL  EXHAUST,  A  CLAIM FOR DEATH BENEFITS SHALL NOT BE DISALLOWED AS
 BARRED BY SECTION EIGHTEEN OR SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF  THIS  ARTICLE  IF
 SUCH  CLAIM  IS  FILED  WITHIN  ONE  YEAR  OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
 SECTION. SUCH CLAIMS MAY BE FILED AFTER SUCH PERIOD IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH
 SECTION EIGHTEEN AND SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04662-01-1

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