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Senate Bill S3584

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to submission requirements for reports of independent medical examinations

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2025-S3584 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1423
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §137, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9595, A10673

2025-S3584 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires reports of independent medical examinations to be submitted by electronic filing; requires such report to additionally be mailed to the claimant unless the claimant opts out.

2025-S3584 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3584 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3584
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to submission
   requirements for reports of independent medical examinations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 137 of the work-
 ers' compensation law, as added by chapter 473 of the laws of  2000,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  A copy of each report of independent medical examination shall be
 submitted by the practitioner on the same day and in  the  same  manner,
 THAT INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO ELECTRONIC FILING, to the board, the
 insurance carrier, the claimant's attending physician or other attending
 practitioner,  the claimant's representative and the claimant. PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT SUBMITTING AN ELECTRONIC FILING TO A  SYSTEM  OPERATED  BY
 THE  BOARD  IN  A  MANNER  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  CHAIR SHALL SATISFY SUCH
 REQUIREMENT. THE PRACTITIONER SHALL ALSO MAIL A COPY OF THE  INDEPENDENT
 MEDICAL EXAMINATION REPORT TO THE CLAIMANT ON THE SAME DAY AS THE REPORT
 IS  ELECTRONICALLY FILED WITH THE BOARD UNLESS SUCH CLAIMANT OPTS OUT OF
 SUCH REQUIREMENT BY PROVIDING NOTICE TO THE BOARD IN WRITING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02062-01-5

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