Bill Text: NY A01076 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to workplace safety and loss prevention programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - enacting clause stricken [A01076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01076-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1076

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZEBROWSKI, STIRPE, HUNTER, THIELE -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  workplace
          safety and loss prevention programs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 134 of the workers' compen-
     2  sation law, as amended by chapter 6 of the laws of 2007 and  subdivision
     3  1  as further amended by section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws
     4  of 2011, are amended to read as follows:
     5    1. The commissioner of labor, in consultation with the  superintendent
     6  of financial services and the chair of the board shall develop a compul-
     7  sory  workplace  safety  and  loss  prevention program for all employers
     8  whose most recent annual payroll is in excess of [eight] one million two
     9  hundred thousand dollars and whose most recent experience rating exceeds
    10  the level of 1.2.  The commissioner of labor  shall  adjust  the  annual
    11  payroll  amount  in  this subdivision annually beginning on the first of
    12  March next succeeding the date on which the chapter of the laws  of  two
    13  thousand  twenty-three  that  amended this subdivision shall have become
    14  law. Such adjustment shall be based on the percentage  increase  in  the
    15  wages and salaries for private industry workers for the preceding calen-
    16  dar  year  as stated in the Employment Cost Index reported by the United
    17  States Bureau of Labor  Statistics.  The  commissioner  of  labor  shall
    18  promulgate  rules and regulations for the implementation of safety, drug
    19  and alcohol prevention, and return to work incentive programs.
    20    2. The commissioner of labor shall  provide  written  notification  to
    21  employers  whose  most recent annual payroll is in excess of [eight] one
    22  million two hundred thousand dollars and whose  most  recent  experience
    23  rating  exceeds  the  level  of  1.2 that they are required to undergo a
    24  workplace safety and loss prevention  consultation  and  written  evalu-
    25  ation.  Copies  of  the  written  notification  shall be provided to the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03241-01-3

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     1  department of labor  and  the  employer's  insurer.  The  employer  must
     2  arrange  for  the  consultation  and evaluation within thirty days after
     3  receiving the notification and must within ten  days  thereafter  notify
     4  its insurer and the department of labor in writing of the means by which
     5  the  evaluation  is  to  be  accomplished. The employer must provide its
     6  insurer and the department of labor with a copy of the evaluation within
     7  thirty days after receiving it from the safety and loss consultant.  Any
     8  remedial action recommended in the evaluation must be implemented by the
     9  employer  within  a  reasonable  period  of  time, but not to exceed six
    10  months after the employer receives the evaluation. The  insurer,  within
    11  sixty  days after the expiration of such six month period, shall conduct
    12  an inspection to ascertain whether the recommended remedial  action  has
    13  been implemented, and the insurer shall within forty-five days thereaft-
    14  er  provide  to  the  employer and the department of labor a copy of its
    15  inspection report.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    17  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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