Bill Text: NY S02239 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2239 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Adds chronic pain disorder as a justifiable ailment for which one may receive compensatory payments under the workers' compensation law; defines chronic pain disorder as any process which causes pain in patients suffering from diseases known to be chronic and incurable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02239 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02239-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2239
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 18, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  including
         chronic pain disorder as a compensable occupational disease
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the  workers'
    2  compensation  law,  as renumbered by chapter 665 of the laws of 1971, is
    3  renumbered paragraph 31 and a new paragraph  30  is  added  to  read  as
    4  follows:
    5       30. CHRONIC PAIN DISORDER.              30. ANY PROCESS WHICH
    6                                               CAUSES PAIN IN PATIENTS
    7                                               SUFFERING FROM DISEASES
    8                                               KNOWN TO BE CHRONIC
    9                                               AND INCURABLE.
   10    S  2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the work-
   11  ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 1971, is
   12  amended to read as follows:
   13    Nothing in paragraph [thirty] THIRTY-ONE of this subdivision shall  be
   14  construed  to  apply  to  any  disability  or  death  due to any disease
   15  described in paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.
   16    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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