Bill Text: NJ A5124 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires workers' compensation eligibility determination and notification to be made within six months following death of certain volunteers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-13 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A5124 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-A5124-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PARKER SPACE
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
SYNOPSIS
Requires workers' compensation eligibility determination and notification to be made within six months following death of certain volunteers.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning workers' compensation and amending R.S.34:15-75.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. R.S.34:15-75 is amended to read as follows:
34:15-75. Compensation for injury and death, either or both, of any volunteer fireman, county fire marshal, assistant county fire marshal, volunteer first aid or rescue squad worker, volunteer driver of any municipally-owned or operated ambulance, forest fire warden or forest fire fighter employed by the State of New Jersey, member of a board of education, special reserve or auxiliary policeman doing volunteer public police duty under the control or supervision of any commission, council or any other governing body of any municipality, emergency management volunteer doing emergency management service, health care workers, public health workers and support services personnel registered with the Emergency Health Care Provider Registry pursuant to section 6 of P.L.2005, c.222 (C.26:13-6) and doing emergency management service for the State, or any volunteer worker for the Division of Parks and Forestry, the Division of Fish and Wildlife, the New Jersey Natural Lands Trust or the New Jersey Historic Trust, shall:
a. Be based upon a weekly salary or compensation conclusively presumed to be received by such person in an amount sufficient to entitle him, or, in the event of his death, his dependents, to receive the maximum compensation by this chapter authorized; [and]
b. Not be subject to the seven-day waiting period provided in R.S.34:15-14; and
c. In the case of compensation for death, be determined, and the person's dependents shall be notified of the determination, within six months of the person's death.
(cf: P.L.2005, c.222, s.34.)
2. This act shall take effect on the 90th day next following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a workers'
compensation eligibility determination and notification of the determination to
dependents to be made within six months following death of certain volunteers.
Specifically, the bill provides that in the case of the death of certain
volunteers, such as volunteer firemen, volunteer rescue squad
workers, and auxiliary policemen doing volunteer public police duty, the
workers' compensation insurer must make a determination as to the volunteer's
eligibility for compensation benefits and notify the volunteer's dependents as
to that decision within six months of the volunteer's death.
