Senate Bill S2239

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to chronic pain disorder as a compensable occupational disease

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee

  • 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-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S217

2011-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds chronic pain disorder as a justifiable ailment for which one may receive compensatory payments under the workers' compensation law; defines chronic pain disorder as any process which causes pain in patients suffering from diseases known to be chronic and incurable.

2011-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2239

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 18, 2011
                               ___________

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.
                                                           LBD07408-01-1

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