New York Assembly Bill 2145

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-03 - referred to labor
Pending: Assembly Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19; and where the applicable head of the member's retirement system or such system's medical board determines COVID-19 to have been a significant contributing factor in the member's death.

Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19; and where the applicable head of the member's retirement system or such system's medical board determines COVID-19 to have been a significant contributing factor in the member's death.

Asm. Kimberly Jean-Pierre [D]	Asm. Jonathan Jacobson [D]	Asm. Phillip Steck [D]	Asm. Gary Pretlow [D]
Asm. Inez Dickens [D]	Asm. Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Asm. Charles Lavine [D]	Asm. Aileen Gunther [D]
Asm. Jo Simon [D]	Asm. William Magnarelli [D]	Asm. William Colton [D]	Asm. Andrew Hevesi [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-03	Assembly	referred to labor
2023-01-23	Assembly	referred to labor

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A2145
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02145&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A02145