Bill Text: NY A02081 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts from workers' compensation coverage an injury or occupational disease sustained in the perpetration by the employee of a felony or misdemeanor for which the employee is convicted.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A02081 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02081-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2081 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, GOODELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, KOLB, MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to liability for compensation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 10 of the workers' compensation 2 law, as amended by chapter 924 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 1. Every employer subject to this chapter shall in accordance with 5 this chapter, except as otherwise provided in section twenty-five-a 6 hereof, secure compensation to his employees and pay or provide compen- 7 sation for their disability or death from injury arising out of and in 8 the course of the employment without regard to fault as a cause of the 9 injury, except that there shall be no liability for compensation under 10 this chapter when the injury has been solely occasioned by intoxication 11 from alcohol or a controlled substance of the injured employee while on 12 duty; or by wilful intention of the injured employee to bring about the 13 injury or death of himself, herself or another; or where the injury or 14 occupational disease was sustained by the injured employee in the perpe- 15 tration of a felony or misdemeanor for which the employee is convicted; 16 or where the injury was sustained in or caused by voluntary partic- 17 ipation in an off-duty athletic activity not constituting part of the 18 employee's work related duties unless the employer (a) requires the 19 employee to participate in such activity, (b) compensates the employee 20 for participating in such activity or (c) otherwise sponsors the activ- 21 ity. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05719-01-7