Bill Text: NY A07508 | 2011-2012 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2012-08-17 - tabled [A07508 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A07508-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7508
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 6, 2011
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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.
LBD10345-01-1
