STATE OF NEW YORK
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5901--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 10, 2015
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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2 law is REPEALED.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