STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         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     2  law is REPEALED.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.
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