Bill Text: NY S04471 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires workers' compensation hearings and pre-hearing conferences to be stenographically recorded by a stenographer in the employ of the workers' compensation board.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2013-07-31 - VETOED MEMO.208 [S04471 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04471-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4471
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 3, 2013
                                      ___________
       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  requiring
         hearings  and pre-hearing conferences to be recorded by a stenographer
         in the employ of the workers' compensation board
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 122 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by
    2  chapter 113 of the laws of 1946, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  122. Transcripts. ALL HEARINGS AND PRE-HEARING CONFERENCES SHALL BE
    4  STENOGRAPHICALLY RECORDED BY A STENOGRAPHER IN THE EMPLOY OF THE  BOARD.
    5  A  copy  of  the testimony, evidence and procedure of any investigation,
    6  HEARING OR PRE-HEARING CONFERENCE, or a particular part thereof,  STENO-
    7  GRAPHICALLY  RECORDED AND transcribed by a stenographer in the employ of
    8  the board and certified by such stenographer to be true and correct  may
    9  be  received  in  evidence  with the same effect as if such stenographer
   10  were present and testifying to the facts so certified.  A copy  of  such
   11  transcript  shall  be furnished to any party upon payment of the fee for
   12  transcripts of similar minutes in the supreme court.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00658-01-3
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