STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3291

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in  relation  to  covered
          employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 202 of the  workers'  compensation
     2  law, as amended by chapter 65 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
     5  to an employer of personal or domestic  employees  in  a  private  home,
     6  except  an  employer  shall become a covered employer from and after the
     7  expiration of four  weeks  following  the  employment  of  one  or  more
     8  personal  or domestic employees who work for a minimum of [forty] twenty
     9  hours per week for such employer and are employed on each  of  at  least
    10  thirty days in any calendar year.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09171-01-1