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Senate Bill S217
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S217 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง3, Work Comp L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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S2239
2009-S217 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S217 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to including chronic pain disorder as a compensable occupational disease SUMMARY : This bill amends chapter 665 of the laws of 1971 by renumbering paragraph 31 and adding a new paragraph 30. This bill adds chronic pain disorder as a justifiable ailment for which one may receive compensatory payments under the workers' compensation laws of 1971, if this disease is a direct result from one's occupation. This bill grants to those individuals providing evidence of chronic pain disorder as a result of one's occupation may receive compensatory payments as delineated in the workers' compensation law, found in section 3. JUSTIFICATION : In recent years, it has been discovered that many individuals endure chronic and incurable diseases resulting from their occupations. The resulting disorder has forced many of these individuals to relieve themselves from their occupational positions without receiving any pay. Chronic pain disorder has severe and irreversible effects. It is now necessary to incorporate this ailment to the list of those enumerated under Workers' Compensation Law Section 3.
2009-S217 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 217 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- 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 including chronic pain disorder as a compensable occupational disease THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the workers' compensation law, as renumbered by chapter 665 of the laws of 1971, is renumbered paragraph 31 and a new paragraph 30 is added to read as follows: 30. CHRONIC PAIN DISORDER. 30. ANY PROCESS WHICH CAUSES PAIN IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM DISEASES KNOWN TO BE CHRONIC AND INCURABLE. S 2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the work- ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows: Nothing in paragraph [thirty] THIRTY-ONE of this subdivision shall be construed to apply to any disability or death due to any disease described in paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision. S 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02683-01-9
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