Bill Text: NY S02837 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to covered employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02837 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02837-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2837
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 29, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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  covered
         employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 202 of the  workers'  compensation
    2  law, as amended by chapter 65 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
    5  to an employer of personal or domestic  employees  in  a  private  home,
    6  except  an  employer  shall become a covered employer from and after the
    7  expiration of four  weeks  following  the  employment  of  one  or  more
    8  personal  or domestic employees who work for a minimum of [forty] TWENTY
    9  hours per week for such employer and are employed on each  of  at  least
   10  thirty days in any calendar year.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04799-01-5
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