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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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Senate Bill S3384
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) 60th 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
2017-S3384 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A1640
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§2, 15 & 52, Work Comp L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
S3010
2015-2016: S1845, A7383
2017-S3384 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3384 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to applicable average weekly wage PURPOSE : To reduce the costs of unemployment insurance for employers in areas where the average weekly wage is less than the state average. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1 defines the applicable weekly wage as the average weekly wage of the economic development region where an employee resides or the average weekly wage in New York State, whichever is less. Sections 2 and 3 apply this applicable weekly wage to compensation for disability resulting from an accident or occupational disease. Section 4 provides for an immediate effective date. EXISTING LAW : Compensation is based on the average weekly wage for New York State. JUSTIFICATION :
2017-S3384 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3384 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 applicable average weekly wage THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 16 of section 2 of the workers' compensation law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2007 and as further amended by section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 16. "[New York state] APPLICABLE average weekly wage" shall mean THE LESSER OF: (I) the average weekly wage of the state of New York for the previous calendar year as reported by the commissioner of labor to the superintendent of financial services on March thirty-first; OR (II) THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGION, PURSUANT TO SECTION TWO HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAW, IN WHICH THE EMPLOYEE RESIDES AS REPORTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF LABOR TO THE SUPER- INTENDENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES ON MARCH THIRTY-FIRST. PROVIDED, HOWEV- ER, THAT THE APPLICABLE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO DOLLARS. § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 15 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by section 7-a of part GG of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: (a) Compensation for permanent or temporary total disability due to an accident or disablement resulting from an occupational disease that occurs, (1) on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five dollars per week, that occurs (2) on or after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, shall not exceed one hundred eighty dollars per week, that occurs (3) on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine, shall not exceed two hundred fifteen dollars per week, that occurs (4) on or after July EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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