Bill Text: NY A09922 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to presumptive evidence for individuals who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations; provides that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Trade Center Health Program Certification shall be deemed to be presumptive medical evidence of a causation of a qualifying condition.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-09 - signed chap.559 [A09922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09922-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9922--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees -- reported and referred to the Committee on
          Ways   and  Means  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation  to  presump-
          tive  evidence  for  individuals  who  participated in the World Trade
          Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations

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

     1    Section  1.  The  workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 169 to read as follows:
     3    § 169. Presumptive evidence. 1. The board  shall  accept  the  certif-
     4  ications  of  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Trade
     5  Center Health Program as presumptive evidence of causation of  certified
     6  illnesses  pursuant  to  42 USC 300mm for claims filed for conditions of
     7  impairment of health or death pursuant to a qualifying condition.
     8    2. Notwithstanding section eighteen or twenty-eight of  this  chapter,
     9  any  claimant  who filed a claim or claims that were denied prior to the
    10  effective date of this section may refile such claim  or  claims  within
    11  two years of the effective date of this section.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15101-03-2