Assembly Bill A5417

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to weekly wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees

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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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2019-A5417 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2060
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A11029, S8035

2019-A5417 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to weekly wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees; relates to those under age 35.

2019-A5417 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5417
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law,  in  relation  to  weekly
   wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 14 of  the  workers'  compensation
 law,  as  amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read
 as follows:
   5. If it be established that the injured employee was under the age of
 [twenty-five] THIRTY-FIVE when injured, OR WAS ACCEPTED TO  OR  ENROLLED
 IN  AN  APPRENTICESHIP  TRAINING PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF
 LABOR PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE LABOR LAW, and that  under
 normal  conditions  his OR HER wages would be expected to increase, that
 fact [may] SHALL be considered in arriving at his OR HER average  weekly
 wages.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04772-01-9

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