Bill Text: NY S08867 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8867 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases as occupational diseases for purposes of workers' compensation; clarifies that disability includes disability caused by Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08867 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08867-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8867

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 26, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  including
          Lyme  disease  and  other tick-borne diseases as occupational diseases
          for purposes of workers' compensation

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the workers'
     2  compensation law, as renumbered by chapter 665 of the laws of  1971,  is
     3  renumbered  paragraph  31  and  a  new  paragraph 30 is added to read as
     4  follows:
     5  30. Lyme disease and other                   30. Any process involving
     6  tick-borne diseases.                         outdoor activity or
     7                                               treatment of animals.
     8    § 2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the  work-
     9  ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 1971, is
    10  amended to read as follows:
    11    Nothing  in paragraph [thirty] thirty-one of this subdivision shall be
    12  construed to apply to  any  disability  or  death  due  to  any  disease
    13  described in paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.
    14    §  3. Subdivision 9 of section 201 of the workers' compensation law is
    15  amended by adding a new paragraph C to read as follows:
    16    C. "Disability" also includes disability caused by  or  in  connection
    17  with Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    20  ment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the  imple-
    21  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on
    22  or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10762-02-1