Senate Bill S8344

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides the carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in excess of 130 weeks

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-S8344 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8950
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15, Work Comp L

2023-S8344 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides the carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in excess of 130 weeks.

2023-S8344 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8344 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8344
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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  providing
   the  carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability
   benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in  excess  of
   130 weeks

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph w of subdivision 3 of section 15 of the  workers'
 compensation  law,  as  amended by section 1 of subpart A of part NNN of
 chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   w. Other cases. In all other cases of  permanent  partial  disability,
 the  compensation  shall  be  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  percent of the
 difference between the injured employee's average weekly wages  and  his
 or her wage-earning capacity thereafter in the same employment or other-
 wise.    Compensation  under  this paragraph shall be payable during the
 continuance of such permanent partial disability, without the  necessity
 for  the claimant who is entitled to benefits at the time of classifica-
 tion to demonstrate ongoing attachment to the labor market, but  subject
 to  reconsideration of the degree of such impairment by the board on its
 own motion or upon application of any party  in  interest  however,  all
 compensation  payable  under  this  paragraph  shall not exceed (i) five
 hundred twenty-five weeks in cases in which  the  loss  of  wage-earning
 capacity is greater than ninety-five percent; (ii) five hundred weeks in
 cases  in which the loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than ninety
 percent but not more than ninety-five percent; (iii) four hundred seven-
 ty-five weeks in cases in which the loss  of  wage-earning  capacity  is
 greater  than eighty-five percent but not more than ninety percent; (iv)
 four hundred fifty weeks in cases in  which  the  loss  of  wage-earning
 capacity  is  greater  than eighty percent but not more than eighty-five
 percent; (v) four hundred twenty-five weeks in cases in which  the  loss
 of  wage-earning  capacity  is greater than seventy-five percent but not
 more than eighty percent; (vi) four hundred weeks in cases in which  the
 loss  of  wage-earning  capacity is greater than seventy percent but not
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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