Bill Text: NY A00255 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits for an employee with a permanent total disability to be based on an increase of the consumer price index as promulgated by the U.S. department of labor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A00255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00255-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           255
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
          COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, GUNTHER, ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Labor
        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
          for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain cases
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 15 of the workers' compensation law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. Cost-of-living  adjustments  of  disability  benefits  in  certain
     4  cases.  (a)  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, in addition to
     5  any other amount received pursuant to this article as  disability  bene-
     6  fits,  an employee with a permanent total disability or the beneficiary-
     7  dependent of such employee shall be entitled to an additional allowance,
     8  to be known as a cost-of-living adjustment allowance, payable annually.
     9    (b) The cost-of-living  adjustment  allowance  shall  be  computed  by
    10  applying  an  adjustment for regional costs of living and shall be based
    11  on fifty percent of the annual increase in the consumer price  index  as
    12  promulgated by the United States department of labor.
    13    §  2. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new section
    14  208-a to read as follows:
    15    § 208-a. Cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in  certain
    16  cases. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any
    17  other  amount  received pursuant to this article as disability benefits,
    18  an employee with a permanent total disability or the  beneficiary-depen-
    19  dent  of  such employee shall be entitled to an additional allowance, to
    20  be known as a cost-of-living adjustment allowance, payable annually.
    21    2. The cost-of-living adjustment allowance shall be computed by apply-
    22  ing an adjustment for regional costs of living and  shall  be  based  on
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  fifty  percent  of  the  annual  increase in the consumer price index as
     2  promulgated by the United States department of labor.
     3    §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
     4  the date on which it shall have become a law.