Bill Text: NY A00649 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to attachment to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A00649 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00649-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           649
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to attachment
          to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5 of section 15 of the workers' compensation
     2  law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    5. Temporary partial disability. In case of temporary partial disabil-
     5  ity resulting in decrease of earning capacity, the compensation shall be
     6  two-thirds  of  the  difference  between  the injured employee's average
     7  weekly wages before the accident and his wage earning capacity after the
     8  accident in the same or other employment. Compensation under this subdi-
     9  vision shall be payable during the continuance of such temporary partial
    10  disability, without the necessity for the claimant to demonstrate  ongo-
    11  ing  attachment  to  the  labor  market, unless the board finds that the
    12  injured employee's loss of wages is  wholly  unrelated  to  his  or  her
    13  partial disability.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04768-01-9