Bill Text: NY A07579 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires an injured worker or person entitled to a death benefit to be provided with the option to have the compensation payment made through direct deposit, and requires such person be given notice of such option and the forms necessary to enroll.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-11 - approval memo.11 [A07579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07579-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7579

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the direct
          deposit of benefits

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  9 of section 25 of the workers' compensation
     2  law, as added by chapter 638 of the  laws  of  2004,  paragraph  (a)  as
     3  amended  by  chapter  70  of  the  laws  of  2005, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    9. Direct deposit. (a) Compensation payments or any portion of compen-
     6  sation payments [may] shall be allowed, upon the written request from an
     7  injured worker or a person entitled to a death benefit provided by  this
     8  chapter,  to  be  deposited  directly  in  a  bank for any purpose to an
     9  account in the name of such injured worker or person entitled to a death
    10  benefit, on forms provided by the board, and duly  filed  in  accordance
    11  with  such  regulations[, provided that an injured worker's employer, if
    12  such employer is an authorized self insured employer, or otherwise  such
    13  employer's  insurance  carrier, has elected to permit the direct deposit
    14  of such compensation payments].  Each person eligible to receive payment
    15  of compensation or a death benefit under this section shall be  notified
    16  of  the  option  to  receive such payment in the form of direct deposit,
    17  such notice to be promulgated by the board. Such eligible  person  shall
    18  also  be provided the forms necessary to enroll in direct deposit pursu-
    19  ant to this paragraph at the same time as notice is  given  pursuant  to
    20  this paragraph.
    21    (b)  The board is hereby authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and
    22  regulations, as may be necessary, to administer the  direct  deposit  of
    23  injured  worker's  compensation  payments. In regard to the deposit of a
    24  portion of an injured worker's compensation  payment,  such  regulations
    25  shall  permit  the  deposit  of  a  payment to be split between multiple

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  accounts by either a dollar amount or exact percentage, provided, howev-
     2  er, such regulations may establish a minimum dollar amount and may limit
     3  the maximum number of partial deposits allowed.
     4    (c)  As  used in this subdivision, the term "bank" includes any finan-
     5  cial institution which is a member of the New York  automated  clearing-
     6  house or any financial institution designated by the board.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.