Bill Text: NY S07954 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7954 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Defines temporary total disability as the injured employee's inability to perform his or her pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered by the employer that is consistent with the employee's disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-04 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07954 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07954-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7954

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 defining
          temporary total disability

          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 15 of the workers' compensation
     2  law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    2.  Temporary total disability. In case of temporary total disability,
     5  which shall consist of the injured employee's inability to  perform  his
     6  or  her  pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered
     7  by the employer that  is  consistent  with  the  employee's  disability,
     8  sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages shall be
     9  paid to the employee during the continuance thereof, except as otherwise
    10  provided in this chapter.
    11    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15133-01-0