Bill Text: NY S06373 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work; applies to all workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2022-12-30 - VETOED MEMO.191 [S06373 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06373-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6373--B
            Cal. No. 1460

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 26, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Labor  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee -- committee discharged and said bill committed to
          the Committee on Rules -- ordered to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
          mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Where  a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty
     5  of this article, or emergency medical technician,  paramedic,  or  other
     6  person  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
     7  dispatcher] worker  files  a  claim  for  mental  injury  premised  upon
     8  extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency]
     9  at  work, the board may not disallow the claim[,] upon a factual finding
    10  that the stress was not greater than that which usually  occurs  in  the
    11  normal work environment.
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00070-04-1