Bill Text: NY S04014 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to impairment guidelines for scheduled loss of use awards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S04014 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04014-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4014
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- 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 impairment
          guidelines for scheduled loss of use awards
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph w of subdivision 3 of section 15 of the workers'
     2  compensation law is relettered paragraph x and  a  new  paragraph  w  is
     3  added to read as follows:
     4    w.  Impairment  guidelines  for scheduled loss of use awards.  For the
     5  purposes determining loss or loss of  use  of  earning  capacity  of  an
     6  employee  under  this  subdivision  the  board  shall  immediately adopt
     7  impairment guidelines for scheduled loss  of  use  awards  substantially
     8  similar  to those developed and completed by the board on or about Janu-
     9  ary eighth, two thousand sixteen.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09618-01-7