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Jan 23, 2023 | referred to labor |
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Jonathan Jacobson
Phil Steck
J. Gary Pretlow
Inez E. Dickens
A2145 (ACTIVE) - Details
A2145 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19(view more)
A2145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2145 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, JACOBSON, STECK, PRETLOW, DICKENS, DINOWITZ, LAVINE, GUNTHER, SIMON, MAGNARELLI, COLTON, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the treat- ment by a medical provider for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 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 "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act." § 2. Section 13-a of the workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: (8) (A) IT SHALL BE PRESUMED THAT TREATMENT RENDERED BY A MEDICAL PROVIDER FOR THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19 WAS DONE SO ON AN EMERGENT BASIS SO AS NOT TO REQUIRE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION. (B) MEDICAL PROVIDERS TREATING PATIENTS FOR THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19 NEED NOT BE AUTHORIZED BY THE CHAIR PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION. § 3. Section 21-a of the workers' compensation law, as added by chap- ter 635 of the laws of 1996, subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 as amended by chap- ter 6 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: § 21-a. Temporary payment of compensation. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, in any instance in which an employer is unsure of the extent of its liability for a claim for compensation by an injured employee pursuant to this chapter, such employer may initiate compensation payments and payments for prescribed medicine and continue such payments for [one year] SIXTY DAYS, without prejudice and without admitting liability, in accordance with a notice of temporary payment of compensation AT THE TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY RATE, on a form prescribed by the board. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02933-01-3 A. 2145 2