Bill Text: NY A05159 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: includes Lyme Disease (Lyme Borrcliosis) as an occupational disease which is compensable under the workers' compensation law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to labor [A05159 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05159-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5159
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 14, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. LANCMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to enacting
the "Lyme disease compensation act"
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "Lyme disease compensation act".
3 S 2. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the workers'
4 compensation law, as renumbered by chapter 665 of the laws of 1971, is
5 renumbered paragraph 31 and a new paragraph 30 is added to read as
6 follows:
7 30. LYME DISEASE 30. ANY PROCESS INVOLVING FARMING,
8 (LYME BORRCLIOSIS). LANDSCAPING OPERATIONS, TREE
9 PRUNING, SPRAYING, REPAIRING,
10 OR RELATED OCCUPATION WHICH
11 CREATES EXPOSURE TO LYME
12 DISEASE CARRYING ORGANISMS
13 OR CARE OR HANDLING OF ANIMALS.
14 S 3. The closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the work-
15 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 1971, is
16 amended to read as follows:
17 Nothing in paragraph [thirty] THIRTY-ONE of this subdivision shall be
18 construed to apply to any disability or death due to any disease
19 described in paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.
20 S 4. 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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