Bill Text: NY A05417 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to weekly wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees; relates to those under age 35.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A05417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05417-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5417
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 12, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law,  in  relation  to  weekly
          wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 14 of  the  workers'  compensation
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    5. If it be established that the injured employee was under the age of
     5  [twenty-five] thirty-five when injured, or was accepted to  or  enrolled
     6  in  an  apprenticeship  training program approved by the commissioner of
     7  labor pursuant to article twenty-three of the labor law, and that  under
     8  normal  conditions  his or her wages would be expected to increase, that
     9  fact [may] shall be considered in arriving at his or her average  weekly
    10  wages.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04772-01-9