Assembly Bill A5159

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Enacts the "Lyme disease compensation act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A5159 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A4984

2011-A5159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

includes Lyme Disease (Lyme Borrcliosis) as an occupational disease which is compensable under the workers' compensation law.

2011-A5159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5159

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. LANCMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation  to  enacting
  the "Lyme disease compensation act"

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
the "Lyme disease compensation act".
  S  2.  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. LYME DISEASE               30. ANY PROCESS INVOLVING FARMING,
    (LYME BORRCLIOSIS).            LANDSCAPING OPERATIONS, TREE
                                   PRUNING, SPRAYING, REPAIRING,
                                   OR RELATED OCCUPATION WHICH
                                   CREATES EXPOSURE TO LYME
                                   DISEASE CARRYING ORGANISMS
                                   OR CARE OR HANDLING OF ANIMALS.
  S 3. 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 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04140-02-1

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