Senate Bill S7081

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to direct deposit of workers' compensation payments

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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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2019-S7081 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A377
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §25, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7425, A9485
2017-2018: S1776, A2657

2019-S7081 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers and insurers to offer direct deposit to recipients of workers' compensation payments.

2019-S7081 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7081 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7081
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, JACKSON -- 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 direct
   deposit of compensation payments
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of section 25 of the work-
 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 70 of the laws of 2005,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Compensation  payments  or  any  portion of compensation payments
 [may] SHALL be allowed, upon the written request from an injured  worker
 or  a person entitled to a death benefit provided by this chapter, to be
 deposited directly in a bank for any purpose to an account in  the  name
 of  such  injured worker or person entitled to a death benefit, on forms
 provided by the board, and duly filed  in  accordance  with  such  regu-
 lations[,  provided  that an injured worker's employer, if such employer
 is an authorized self insured employer,  or  otherwise  such  employer's
 insurance  carrier,  has  elected  to  permit the direct deposit of such
 compensation payments].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03521-01-9

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