Bill Text: NY A06671 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires workers' compensation hearings and pre-hearing conferences to be stenographically recorded by a stenographer in the employ of the workers' compensation board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to labor [A06671 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A06671-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6671 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 30, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to requiring hearings and pre-hearing conferences to be recorded by a stenographer in the employ of the workers' compensation board THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 122 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by 2 chapter 113 of the laws of 1946, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 122. Transcripts. ALL HEARINGS AND PRE-HEARING CONFERENCES SHALL BE 4 STENOGRAPHICALLY RECORDED BY A STENOGRAPHER IN THE EMPLOY OF THE BOARD. 5 A copy of the testimony, evidence and procedure of any investigation, 6 HEARING OR PRE-HEARING CONFERENCE, or a particular part thereof, STENO- 7 GRAPHICALLY RECORDED AND transcribed by a stenographer in the employ of 8 the board and certified by such stenographer to be true and correct may 9 be received in evidence with the same effect as if such stenographer 10 were present and testifying to the facts so certified. A copy of such 11 transcript shall be furnished to any party upon payment of the fee for 12 transcripts of similar minutes in the supreme court. 13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09719-01-5