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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Assembly Bill A4473
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MAGEE
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly 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
2017-A4473 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-A4473 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4473 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 2, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the workers' compensation law, in relation to exempting members of supervised collegiate summer baseball leagues from the definition of employees for purposes of workers' compensation insurance THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3443-a to read as follows: § 3443-A. SUPERVISED COLLEGIATE SUMMER BASEBALL LEAGUES. AMATEUR, UNPAID, COLLEGIATE PLAYERS, EXCEPT THOSE DETERMINED TO BE EMPLOYEES PURSUANT TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT, IN A SUPERVISED COLLEGIATE SUMMER BASEBALL LEAGUE OPERATED ON A FOR-PROFIT BASIS SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM THE DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWO OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. AS SUCH, AN INSURER ISSUING A WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE COVERAGE TO AMATEUR, UNPAID, COLLEGIATE PLAY- ERS, EXCEPT THOSE DETERMINED TO BE EMPLOYEES PURSUANT TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT, IN SAID COLLEGIATE SUMMER BASEBALL LEAGUE. § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 2 of the work- ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 503 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: "Employee" means a person engaged in one of the occupations enumerated in section three of this article or who is in the service of an employer whose principal business is that of carrying on or conducting a hazard- ous employment upon the premises or at the plant, or in the course of his or her employment away from the plant of his or her employer; "employee" shall also mean for the purposes of this chapter any individ- ual performing services in construction for a contractor who does not overcome the presumption of employment as provided under section eight EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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