Bill Text: NY A09480 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9480 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the workers' compensation board to provide notice to covered employers before a fine is assessed for failure to obtain having workers' compensation coverage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - held for consideration in labor [A09480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09480-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9480

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2022
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to requiring
          the workers' compensation board to provide notice to covered employers
          before a fine is assessed for failure to obtain workers'  compensation
          coverage

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

     1    Section 1. Section 151 of the workers' compensation law is amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
     3    15.  An  affected employer who is fifty-five years of age or older who
     4  hires a home health aide shall be provided written notice by  the  work-
     5  ers'  compensation  board of the failure to obtain workers' compensation
     6  coverage before being assessed and fined.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14850-01-2