Bill Text: NY A07424 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 16-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A07424 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07424-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7424 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 2, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES, ABBATE -- 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 thirty5of this article, or emergency medical technician, paramedic, or other6person certified to provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency7dispatcher] 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 immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05586-01-9