Bill Text: NY A04851 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 4851 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides for cost-of-living adjustments to death benefits and increases certain wage percentages for calculation of benefits.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A04851 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04851-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4851
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. KEARNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
          for  cost-of-living  adjustments  to  death  benefits  and  increasing
          certain wage percentages for calculation of benefits
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 16 of the workers' compensation law, as amended  by
     2  chapter 550 of the laws of 1978, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 245
     3  of  the  laws  of  2005,  subdivisions 1-a, 1-b, 1-c, 2, 3, 3-a and 4 as
     4  amended by chapter 168 of the laws of 1979, subdivisions 1-d, 2-b,  3-b,
     5  4-c  and 4-d as added and subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 689 of the
     6  laws of 2007, subdivision 2-a as amended by chapter 174 of the  laws  of
     7  1981,  subdivision 4-a as amended by chapter 509 of the laws of 1985 and
     8  subdivision 4-b as added by chapter 296 of the laws of 1990, is  amended
     9  to read as follows:
    10    §  16.  Death  benefits.  If the injury causes death, the compensation
    11  shall be known as a death benefit and shall be payable in the amount and
    12  to or for the benefit of the persons following:
    13    1. Funeral expenses. The chair shall prepare and establish a  schedule
    14  for  the  state  or  schedules  limited to defined localities of maximum
    15  charges and fees for such funeral expenses, to be determined in  accord-
    16  ance  with, and to be subject to change pursuant to[,] rules promulgated
    17  by the chair. Before preparing such schedule for the state or  schedules
    18  for limited localities, the chair shall request the president of the New
    19  York  state  funeral  directors'  association  to  submit to the chair a
    20  report on the amount of remuneration deemed by such  association  to  be
    21  fair  and adequate for the types of funeral services rendered under this
    22  chapter, but consideration shall also be given to  the  views  of  other
    23  interested  parties.  The  amounts  payable  by  the  employer  for such
    24  services shall be the actual fees and charges up to the  maximum  estab-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08398-01-5