Bill Text: NY A05327 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "occupational safety and health funding act"; relates to the dedicated occupational safety and health training and education and occupational health clinic programs fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to labor [A05327 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05327-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5327
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 22, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the state finance  law,  in  relation  to  enacting  the
         "occupational safety and health funding act"
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "occupa-
    2  tional safety and health funding act".
    3    S 2. Section 97-c of the state finance law, as added by chapter 886 of
    4  the  laws of 1985, subdivisions 3 and 4 as amended by chapter 309 of the
    5  laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
    6    S 97-c. [Training and education program  on  occupational  safety  and
    7  health  fund]  DEDICATED  OCCUPATIONAL  SAFETY  AND  HEALTH TRAINING AND
    8  EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CLINIC  PROGRAMS  FUND.  1.  There  is
    9  hereby established in the custody of the state comptroller the [training
   10  and  education program on occupational safety and health fund] DEDICATED
   11  OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING AND EDUCATION  AND  OCCUPATIONAL
   12  HEALTH CLINIC PROGRAMS FUND.
   13    2.  Such  fund  shall consist of moneys collected from special compen-
   14  sation assessments collected pursuant to the provisions of  section  one
   15  hundred  fifty-one  of  the  workers'  compensation law FOR THE TRAINING
   16  PROGRAM ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH AND  THE  OCCUPATIONAL  HEALTH
   17  CLINIC NETWORK.
   18    3. Moneys of the fund shall be available to the New York state occupa-
   19  tional safety and health hazard abatement board for purposes of carrying
   20  out  the  provisions  of article twenty-nine of the labor law and to the
   21  department of labor for worker protection activities under its jurisdic-
   22  tion, AND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR SERVICES RELATED TO THE  OCCU-
   23  PATIONAL HEALTH CLINIC NETWORK.
   24    4.  The  moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant
   25  of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the  chairperson
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01077-02-3
       A. 5327                             2
    1  of  the  board or his or her designee or by the commissioner of labor or
    2  his or her designee, OR BY THE COMMISSIONER OF  HEALTH  OR  HIS  OR  HER
    3  DESIGNEE.  NO  FUNDS  SHALL  BE  PAID  FOR  ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THOSE
    4  ENUMERATED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OR THREE OF THIS SECTION.
    5    5.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general or special law, no
    6  moneys shall be available from the fund until  a  certificate  of  allo-
    7  cation  and  a  schedule  of amounts to be available therefor shall have
    8  been issued by the director of the budget, and a copy  of  such  certif-
    9  icate filed with the comptroller. BEGINNING ON APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
   10  FIFTEEN, AND FOR EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR, THE SCHEDULE OF AMOUNTS AVAILABLE
   11  FOR THE TRAINING PROGRAM ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH AND THE OCCU-
   12  PATIONAL  HEALTH CLINIC NETWORK SHALL REFLECT A PERCENTAGE INCREASE OVER
   13  THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S FUNDING EQUAL TO  OR  GREATER  THAN  THE  PERCENTAGE
   14  INCREASE IN THE MAXIMUM RATE FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFITS PURSUANT
   15  TO  PARAGRAPH  (A) OF SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION FIFTEEN OF THE WORKERS'
   16  COMPENSATION LAW. Such certificate may be amended from time to  time  by
   17  the  director  of  the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be
   18  filed with the comptroller.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.