Senate Bill S3951

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation; repealer

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Current 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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2025-S3951 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §25 sub 2-b, amd §25, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7843
2021-2022: S4875
2023-2024: S4161

2025-S3951 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation; requires a stenographic record of all hearings held; requires minutes and decisions to be provided to the injured worker in their native language.

2025-S3951 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3951 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3951
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. RAMOS, BAILEY, BROUK, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM,
   HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE,  PARKER,  PERSAUD,  RIVERA,
   S. RYAN, SANDERS, STAVISKY -- 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 prohibit-
   ing cases from being closed without a hearing or  written  stipulation
   and  requiring  a  stenographic  record  of  all hearings held; and to
   repeal 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-b of section 25 of the workers' compensation
 law is REPEALED and subdivision 2-c is renumbered subdivision 2-b.
   §  2.    Paragraphs  (b) and (c) of subdivision 3 of section 25 of the
 workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 61 of the laws of 1986,
 are amended to read as follows:
   (b) Nothing herein shall limit the right of the board in a  particular
 case  to  hold  a  hearing  and  make  an award in accordance with other
 provisions of this chapter. No case shall  be  closed  AND  NO  DECISION
 SHALL  BE ISSUED without A HEARING UPON notice to all parties interested
 and without giving to all such parties an opportunity to be heard.
   (c) The board shall keep an accurate STENOGRAPHIC record of all  hear-
 ings held AND PROVIDE THE MINUTES, AT NO COST, TO THE INJURED WORKER AND
 THEIR  REPRESENTATIVE IN THE NATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE INJURED WORKER.  ALL
 DECISIONS SHALL  BE  ISSUED  TO  THE  INJURED  WORKER  IN  THEIR  NATIVE
 LANGUAGE.  Whenever a hearing must be continued or adjourned because the
 carrier  or employer has engaged in dilatory tactics or exhibited unjus-
 tified lack of preparedness, the board shall impose a penalty  of  twen-
 ty-five  dollars  to  be  paid to the fund created by subdivision two of
 section one hundred fifty-one of this chapter and shall in addition make
 an award of seventy-five dollars payable to the injured worker  or  [his
 or her] SUCH WORKER'S dependants. Dilatory tactics may include but shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06525-01-5

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