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Assembly Bill A10222

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to workers' compensation benefits for delivery network company workers

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2025-A10222 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9813
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, Work Comp L

2025-A10222 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes delivery network company workers in the definition of "employee" for purposes of workers' compensation; provides that the employer of a network company deliver worker shall be a delivery network company.

2025-A10222 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10222
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. VALDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to workers'
   compensation benefits for delivery network company workers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2 of the workers' compensation law
 is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
   FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS CHAPTER, THE EMPLOYER OF A DELIVERY NETWORK
 COMPANY WORKER, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION, SHALL BE
 A DELIVERY NETWORK COMPANY. "DELIVERY  NETWORK  COMPANY"  SHALL  MEAN  A
 PERSON,  CORPORATION,  PARTNERSHIP, SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP, OR OTHER ENTITY
 THAT IS OPERATING IN NEW YORK STATE EXCLUSIVELY USING A DIGITAL  NETWORK
 TO  CONNECT  DELIVERY  NETWORK  COMPANY  CUSTOMERS WITH DELIVERY NETWORK
 COMPANY WORKERS WHO PROVIDE DELIVERY FOR ORDERS OF PRODUCTS MADE  VIA  A
 DIGITAL  NETWORK.  "DELIVERY  NETWORK  COMPANY"  SHALL NOT INCLUDE (I) A
 TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY, AS DEFINED BY  SECTION  SIXTEEN  HUNDRED
 NINETY-ONE  OF  THE  VEHICLE  AND  TRAFFIC LAW; OR (II) A RESTAURANT, OR
 RESTAURANT CHAIN, THAT ENABLES CUSTOMERS TO PLACE ORDERS FOR FOOD  USING
 A  DIGITAL NETWORK THAT WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR USE BY CUSTOMERS OF
 SUCH RESTAURANT OR RESTAURANT CHAIN.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2 of the workers'  compensation  law  is
 amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
   "EMPLOYEE" SHALL ALSO MEAN, FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CHAPTER, A DELIV-
 ERY  NETWORK  COMPANY  WORKER,  WHICH  SHALL  MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS
 ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH A DELIVERY NETWORK COMPANY, AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION,  TO  PICK  UP  AND  DELIVER  DELIVERY
 NETWORK COMPANY ORDERS FOR COMPENSATION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14086-01-5

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