Assembly Actions -
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May 10, 2018 |
referred to labor |
Senate Bill S8706
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 33rd 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-S8706 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Rpld §50 sub 2, rpld §54 sub 7, amd §§54, 94, 151 & 157, Work Comp L
- Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
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S1023
2017-S8706 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8706 SPONSOR: RIVERA TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to securing compensation to employees; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating thereto PURPOSE: Eliminates private insurance carriers as a source of workers' compen- sation insurance SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This legislation would eliminate the ability of private insurance compa- nies to provide workers compensation coverage. An employer could obtain workers' compensation insurance from the State Insurance Fund, or could self-insure.
2017-S8706 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8706 I N S E N A T E May 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 securing compensation to employees; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 50 of the workers' compensation law is REPEALED. § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 54 of the workers' compensation law is REPEALED. § 3. Subdivision 6-a of section 54 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 24 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows: 6-a. Insurance contracts with fire or ambulance districts. Notwith- standing any other provision of this section or of this chapter, any insurance contract to secure workers' compensation for a fire or ambu- lance district pursuant to subdivision one [or subdivision two] of section fifty of this chapter issued to take effect on or after July first, nineteen hundred sixty, in relation to a fire district and Janu- ary first, in the year next succeeding the year in which this subdivi- sion as hereby amended becomes effective, in relation to an ambulance district or any such contract renewed to continue in effect on or after such dates, shall provide workers' compensation coverage for all fire or ambulance district officers, whether elective or appointive, and all fire or ambulance district employees, whether or not they are compen- sated for their services, unless the board of fire or ambulance commis- sioners of the fire district or ambulance district by resolution elects not to provide such coverage for any one or more of such officers or employees, or class thereof. Such election not to provide such coverage shall be effective with respect to all such insurance contracts there- after issued to such fire or ambulance district by any insurance carrier until revoked in whole or in part by resolution of the board of fire or ambulance commissioners of the fire or ambulance district. Such election not to provide such coverage shall not become effective until thirty days after a copy of such resolution has been filed with the chairman of
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