Bill Text: NY A06218 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits workers' compensation benefits for partial permanent disabilities, which limit wage earning by less than 85%, to the period of the continuance of such disability, but not for a period of more than 525 weeks.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to labor [A06218 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06218-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6218
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. McDONALD, SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to payment of
          compensation to employees who suffer permanent partial disability
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 15 of the
     2  workers' compensation law is amended to read as follows:
     3    In  case  of disability partial in character but permanent in quality,
     4  for which the impairment of wage earning capacity is found to  be  under
     5  eighty-five  percent, the compensation shall be sixty-six and two-thirds
     6  per centum of the average weekly wages and shall be paid to the employee
     7  during the continuance of such permanent partial disability,  but  shall
     8  not  exceed  five hundred twenty-five weeks from the date of the injury.
     9  In case of disability partial in character but permanent in quality, for
    10  which the impairment of wage earning capacity if found to be eighty-five
    11  percent or more, the compensation  shall  be  sixty-six  and  two-thirds
    12  percent  of  the  average weekly wages and shall be paid to the employee
    13  for the period named in this subdivision, as follows:
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09730-01-7