Bill Text: NY S03922 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to attachment to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-06 - PRINT NUMBER 3922A [S03922 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S03922-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3922--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 30, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SAVINO, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to attachment to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 15 of the workers' compensation 2 law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 5. Temporary partial disability. In case of temporary partial disabil- 5 ity resulting in decrease of earning capacity, the compensation shall be 6 two-thirds of the difference between the injured employee's average 7 weekly wages before the accident and his wage earning capacity after the 8 accident in the same or other employment. Compensation under this subdi- 9 vision shall be payable during the continuance of such temporary partial 10 disability, without the necessity for the claimant to demonstrate ongo- 11 ing attachment to the labor market, unless the board finds that the 12 injured employee's loss of wages is wholly unrelated to his or her 13 partial disability. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03017-02-8