Senate Bill S5362

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting payments 14 days after the due date

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee

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

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2025-S5362 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §25, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6328
2019-2020: S2710
2021-2022: S3948
2023-2024: S5866

2025-S5362 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to permitting payments 14 days after the due date.

2025-S5362 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5362 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5362
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 permitting
   payments 14 days after the due date
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 25 of the work-
 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (e) If the employer  or  insurance  carrier  shall  fail  to  pay  any
 installments  of  compensation  within [twenty-five] FOURTEEN days after
 the same become due, there shall be paid by the employer or, if insured,
 its insurance carrier, an additional amount of  twenty  percent  of  the
 compensation  then due which shall accrue for the benefit of the injured
 worker or [his or her] SUCH INJURED WORKER'S  dependents  and  shall  be
 paid to [him or her or] them with the compensation, unless such delay or
 default  is excused by the board upon the application of the employer or
 insurance carrier upon the ground that owing to  conditions  over  which
 the employer or insurance carrier had no control, such payment could not
 be  made.  The employer in each such instance shall also be assessed the
 sum of three hundred dollars, which shall be paid to the claimant.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09522-01-5

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