Bill Text: NY A05809 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - referred to labor [A05809 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05809-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5809

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        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  requiring
          the  workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every
          year thereafter

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 153-a to read as follows:
     3    § 153-a. Supplemental report.  The board shall on or before the  first
     4  day  of  February, two thousand twenty-seven, and every year thereafter,
     5  make in writing to the governor, the speaker of  the  assembly  and  the
     6  temporary president of the senate a supplemental report on the status of
     7  the  workers'  compensation  board  and methods to modernize such board,
     8  which shall be delivered in addition to the annual report required under
     9  section one hundred  fifty-three  of  this  article.  Such  supplemental
    10  report  shall  include, but not be limited to, data and information sets
    11  and recommendations concerning:
    12    1. the status of the workers' compensation board  and  recommendations
    13  to modernize such board;
    14    2.  the  total  number  of claimants who have filed a claim before the
    15  workers' compensation board;
    16    3. the total number of claims in which an award or decision was  made,
    17  and the total number of claims in which a court order was made;
    18    4.  the  average  length  of  time between the time a claimant files a
    19  claim to the workers' compensation board and the time an award or  deci-
    20  sion, or court order, is made in regards to such claim;
    21    5.  the number of claims in which the time to an award or decision, or
    22  court order, was greater than the average time as detailed  by  subdivi-
    23  sion four of this section, and reasons why such claims were greater than
    24  the average time;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    6.  the  number  of  claims in which frivolous appeals were made by an
     2  employer, and if any award or decision, or court order, related to  such
     3  claims  were  made  in  a time that was greater than the average time as
     4  detailed by and cross referenced with subdivisions four and five of this
     5  section; and
     6    7.  all  other such data and information sets that are relevant to the
     7  requirements of this section or may be useful to the recommendations  as
     8  required herein, as determined by the chair of the workers' compensation
     9  board.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.