Bill Text: NY S06635 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-12-06 - APPROVAL MEMO.21 [S06635 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06635-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6635

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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 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.
                                                                   LBD08319-01-3