Bill Text: NY A01118 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Defines temporary total disability as the injured employee's inability to perform his or her pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered by the employer that is consistent with the employee's disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-02 - substituted by s768 [A01118 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A01118-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1118 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to defining temporary total disability The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 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 2. Temporary total disability. In case of temporary total disability, 5 which shall consist of the injured employee's inability to perform his 6 or her pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered 7 by the employer that is consistent with the employee's disability, 8 sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages shall be 9 paid to the employee during the continuance thereof, except as otherwise 10 provided in this chapter. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03446-01-1
