Bill Text: NY A03870 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 3870 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides workers' compensation benefits for injury or sickness, pregnancy or family leave; applies to an employee and to family members taking family leave to care for an employee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 67-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-02 - REFERRED TO LABOR [A03870 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03870-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3870--A
                                                                Cal. No. 163
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  NOLAN, TITUS, HEASTIE, COOK, WEPRIN, JAFFEE,
          SCHIMEL, COLTON, ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, FAHY, PERRY,  DenDEKKER,  DINOWITZ,
          GOTTFRIED,  MARKEY, O'DONNELL, RUSSELL, HOOPER, BRONSON, MAYER, ROBIN-
          SON, SEPULVEDA, RODRIGUEZ,  MOYA,  STECK,  ORTIZ,  LINARES,  ABINANTI,
          WALKER, BLAKE, KAVANAGH, LIFTON, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A.  ARROYO,  AUBRY, BARRETT, BARRON, BICHOTTE, BRENNAN, CAHILL, CLARK,
          CRESPO, DAVILA, ENGLEBRIGHT, FARRELL, GALEF, GLICK, JOYNER,  KAMINSKY,
          KIM, LAVINE, LUPARDO, MILLER, OTIS, PEOPLES-STOKES, PICHARDO, PRETLOW,
          QUART,  SEAWRIGHT,  SIMON, SIMOTAS, SOLAGES, THIELE, WEINSTEIN -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Labor --  advanced  to  a  third
          reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place on the
          order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law and the insurance law,  in
          relation  to  providing  benefits for injury or sickness, pregnancy or
          family leave
          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 76 of the workers' compensation
     2  law, as added by chapter 600 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  The purposes of the state insurance fund herein created are hereby
     5  enlarged to provide [for the] insurance [by the state insurance fund of]
     6  for the payment of the benefits required by section two hundred four  of
     7  this  chapter, including benefits for family care provided either in the
     8  same policy with or in a separate policy from  benefits  for  disability
     9  resulting  from  injury,  sickness  or  pregnancy of an employee, and as
    10  provided pursuant to section two hundred eleven-a of this  chapter.    A
    11  separate  fund  is hereby created within the state insurance fund, which
    12  shall be known as  the  "disability  benefits  fund",  and  which  shall
    13  consist  of  all premiums received and paid into said fund on account of
    14  such insurance, all securities acquired by and through the use of moneys
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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