Bill Text: NY S07131 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to premium rates for workers' compensation insurance; provides that when an employee has concurrent employment at one employer, such employer shall pay premium rates for workers' compensation insurance for such employee based on the applicable group and class for each employment if such employer keeps complete and accurate payroll records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07131 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07131-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7131

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in  relation  to  premium
          rates for workers' compensation insurance

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 89 of  the  workers'  compensation
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 135 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    1. (a) Employments and employees in the state fund  shall  be  divided
     5  into  such  groups  and classes as shall be equitable based upon differ-
     6  ences of industry or hazard for  the  purpose  of  establishing  premium
     7  rates for workers' compensation insurance, and for such purpose a system
     8  of merit rating may be employed which shall take account of the peculiar
     9  hazard of each individual risk, provided, however, that when an employee
    10  has  concurrent employment at one employer, such employer shall pay such
    11  premium rates for workers'  compensation  insurance  for  such  employee
    12  based  on  the  applicable  group  and class for each employment if such
    13  employer keeps complete and accurate payroll records, including, but not
    14  limited to original time  cards  or  time  book  entries  which  clearly
    15  distinguish  between  the two or more employments held by such employee.
    16  Such premiums in the state fund shall be fixed at  the  lowest  possible
    17  rates  consistent  with the maintenance of a solvent fund and of reason-
    18  able reserves and surplus.
    19    (b) For the purposes  of  this  subdivision,  "concurrent  employment"
    20  means an employee who has two or more employments with the same employer
    21  and such employments are distinguishable based on the groups and classes
    22  for the industry or hazards involved.
    23    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11668-01-1