senate Bill S1302

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a registry of workplace fatalities

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  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor Calendar
    • Passed Senate
    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed by Governor

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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 16, 2021 signed chap.65
Feb 12, 2021 delivered to governor
Feb 10, 2021 returned to senate
passed assembly
ordered to third reading cal.10
substituted for a974
Feb 02, 2021 referred to labor
delivered to assembly
passed senate
Jan 19, 2021 ordered to third reading cal.73
Jan 11, 2021 referred to rules

S1302 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A974
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §44, Lab L; amd §2, Chap of 2020 (as proposed in S.8828 & A.5965-A)

S1302 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a registry of workplace fatalities in the construction industry to record information pertaining to all incidents under which an employee performing construction work suffers a work-related fatal injury.

S1302 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S1302 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1302
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a registry of
   workplace fatalities in the construction industry to  record  informa-
   tion  pertaining  to  all  incidents  under  which a worker performing
   construction work suffers a work-related fatal injury; and to amend  a
   chapter  of the laws of 2020 amending the labor law relating to estab-
   lishing a registry of workplace fatalities in the construction  indus-
   try  to  record information pertaining to all incidents under which an
   employee performing construction work  suffers  a  work-related  fatal
   injury,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 8828 and A.
   5965-A, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 44 of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the
 laws of 2020 amending the labor law relating to establishing a  registry
 of  workplace fatalities in the construction industry to record informa-
 tion pertaining to all incidents  under  which  an  employee  performing
 construction  work  suffers  a work-related fatal injury, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 8828 and A. 5965-A, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   §  44.  Workplace  fatality  registry;  construction. 1. Registry. The
 department shall create and maintain a registry of workplace  fatalities
 in  the construction industry, which shall include information regarding
 all incidents under which [an employee] A WORKER performing construction
 work suffers a work-related fatal injury in the workplace.  Such  regis-
 try shall include the information reported to the department pursuant to
 subdivisions three and four of this section, in addition to any informa-
 tion  deemed  pertinent  by the commissioner as a result of any investi-
 gation, hearing, or other proceedings of the department.
   2. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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