Bill Text: NY A02202 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a disability benefit for employees of the New York city transit authority, and its subsidiary corporations, who are disabled by reason of an assault sustained in the course of employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A02202 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02202-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2202
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, BLAKE, RODRIGUEZ, COLTON, CRESPO, PICHAR-
          DO, D'URSO, HYNDMAN, FERNANDEZ, DICKENS, ARROYO, ORTIZ, BARRON, SIMON,
          COOK,  GOTTFRIED,  RIVERA,  BICHOTTE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          ABBATE, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Corpo-
          rations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing a
          disability benefit for employees of the New York city transit authori-
          ty and its subsidiary corporations who are disabled by  reason  of  an
          assault sustained in the course of employment
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1210-b to read as follows:
     3    §  1210-b.  Disability  benefit  for  employees.    1. As used in this
     4  section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    a. "Authority" shall mean the New York city transit authority and  any
     6  of  its  subsidiary  corporations,  including  the  Manhattan  and Bronx
     7  surface operating authority.
     8    b. "Employee" shall mean any officer or employee of the authority.
     9    2. Any employee of the authority who, after the effective date of this
    10  section, sustains an injury for which he or  she  is  determined  to  be
    11  eligible  for  workers'  compensation benefits as a result of an assault
    12  sustained in the course of his or her employment shall be  entitled,  in
    13  addition  to  any  workers'  compensation  payment and any other benefit
    14  received by the employee owing to such disability  whether  pursuant  to
    15  law  or  contract,  to a disability benefit payment equal to one-half of
    16  the weekly workers' compensation payment, excluding schedule awards that
    17  the employee receives for the same disability. Such  disability  payment
    18  shall  be made by the authority bi-weekly and shall continue for so long
    19  as the employee receives a workers' compensation payment  for  the  same
    20  disability.  The  benefits  provided  for  in  this section shall not be
    21  deemed to offset or reduce any other payment to which  the  employee  is
    22  otherwise entitled.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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