Bill Text: NY S07081 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employers and insurers to offer direct deposit to recipients of workers' compensation payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07081 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07081-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7081

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2020
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        Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, JACKSON -- 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 direct
          deposit of compensation payments

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of section 25 of the work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 70 of the laws of 2005,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Compensation  payments  or  any  portion of compensation payments
     5  [may] shall be allowed, upon the written request from an injured  worker
     6  or  a person entitled to a death benefit provided by this chapter, to be
     7  deposited directly in a bank for any purpose to an account in  the  name
     8  of  such  injured worker or person entitled to a death benefit, on forms
     9  provided by the board, and duly filed  in  accordance  with  such  regu-
    10  lations[,  provided  that an injured worker's employer, if such employer
    11  is an authorized self insured employer,  or  otherwise  such  employer's
    12  insurance  carrier,  has  elected  to  permit the direct deposit of such
    13  compensation payments].
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03521-01-9