Bill Text: NY S05901 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to workers' compensation; establishes the advisory committee on independent medical examinations to advise, counsel and confer with the chair and executive director on matters of policy in connection with the administration and enforcement of laws and regulations relating to independent medical examinations; establishes within the workers' compensation board an office of the independent medical examination inspector general; relates to cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits; provides that maximum charges and fees for funeral expenses shall not be less than twelve thousand dollars; relates to cost-of-living adjustments of death benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-30 - PRINT NUMBER 5901A [S05901 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05901-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5901--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 10, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Rules 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, the executive law, the insurance law, the civil service law and the penal law, in relation to workers' compensation; and to repeal certain provisions of the work- ers' compensation law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 10 of the workers' compensation 2 law is REPEALED. 3 § 2. Section 12 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by chap- 4 ter 500 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows: 5 § 12. Compensation not allowed for first seven days. No compensation 6 shall be allowed for the first seven days of disability, except the 7 benefits provided for in section thirteen of this chapter, provided, 8 however, that in case the injury results in disability of more than 9 [fourteen] seven days, the compensation shall be allowed from the date 10 of the disability. 11 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 13-a of the workers' compensation law, 12 as amended by chapter 6 of the laws of 2007 and as further amended by 13 section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to 14 read as follows: 15 (5) No claim for specialist consultations, surgical operations, 16 physiotherapeutic or occupational therapy procedures, x-ray examinations 17 or special diagnostic laboratory tests costing more than [one] two thou- 18 sand dollars shall be valid and enforceable, as against such employer, 19 unless such special services shall have been authorized by the employer 20 or by the board, or unless such authorization has been unreasonably EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11499-02-6
