Assembly Bill A486

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for equitable disability policies

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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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2025-A486 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §226, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8328
2021-2022: A2611
2023-2024: A2596

2025-A486 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for equitable disability policies; prohibits any difference, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, or national origin in the amount or payment of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of the other terms or conditions of any policy of disability insurance under the workers' compensation law.

2025-A486 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    486
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, JACKSON, SIMON, LEMONDES, GONZALEZ-ROJAS
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
   equitable disability policies

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 226 of the workers' compensation law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
   8-A. NO INSURANCE CARRIER OR THE  STATE  INSURANCE  FUND  WHO  ISSUES,
 REINSTATES, AMENDS OR ENDORSES ANY CONTRACT OF INSURANCE OR RIDER THERE-
 TO  PROVIDING  THE BENEFITS REQUIRED TO BE PAID UNDER THIS ARTICLE SHALL
 MAKE OR  PERMIT  ANY  DISTINCTION,  CLASSIFICATION,  DISCRIMINATION,  OR
 OTHERWISE  RECOGNIZE  ANY DIFFERENCE, ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, RELI-
 GION, SEX, MARITAL STATUS, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, IN THE AMOUNT OR  PAYMENT
 OF  PREMIUMS  OR  RATE CHARGES, OR IN THE BENEFITS PAYABLE, OR IN ANY OF
 THE OTHER TERMS OR CONDITIONS OF ANY POLICY OF INSURANCE  PROVIDING  THE
 BENEFITS  REQUIRED  TO  BE  PAID  UNDER  THIS  ARTICLE.  AS USED IN THIS
 SECTION, SEX INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, CONDITIONS UNIQUE TO ONE'S
 SEX, SUCH AS PREGNANCY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01978-01-5

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