Bill Text: NY S08035 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to weekly wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees; relates to those under age 35.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-21 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08035 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08035-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8035
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 21, 2018
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        Introduced by Sens. ALCANTARA, SAVINO -- 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 weekly
          wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5 of section 14 of the workers' compensation
     2  law, as amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 1978, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    5. If it be established that the injured employee was under the age of
     5  [twenty-five]  thirty-five  when injured, or was accepted to or enrolled
     6  in an apprenticeship training program approved by  the  commissioner  of
     7  labor  pursuant to article twenty-three of the labor law, and that under
     8  normal conditions his or her wages would be expected to  increase,  that
     9  fact  [may] shall be considered in arriving at his or her average weekly
    10  wages.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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