Bill Text: NY S07378 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7378 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that employers with more than fifty employees shall provide disability benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S07378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07378-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7378
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 22, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- 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 the  defi-
          nition of "employer" for the purposes of disability benefits
          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 201 of the  workers'  compensation
     2  law,  as added by chapter 600 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    4. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a person,
     5  partnership,  association,  corporation,  legal  representative   of   a
     6  deceased  employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, partnership,
     7  association or corporation, who has persons in employment as defined  in
     8  subdivision six of this section and who has fifty or more employees, but
     9  does  not include the state, a municipal corporation, local governmental
    10  agency, other political subdivisions or public authority.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15104-01-6