Bill Text: NY A05745 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work; applies to all workers.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-29 - substituted by s6635 [A05745 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05745-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5745

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  REYES,  DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, DeSTEFANO, SIMON,
          JEAN-PIERRE, COLTON, DARLING, FORREST, CRUZ, BURGOS -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  COOK -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
          mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Where  a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty
     5  of this article, or emergency medical technician,  paramedic,  or  other
     6  person  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
     7  dispatcher] worker  files  a  claim  for  mental  injury  premised  upon
     8  extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency]
     9  at  work, the board may not disallow the claim[,] upon a factual finding
    10  that the stress was not greater than that which usually  occurs  in  the
    11  normal work environment.
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08319-01-3