Senate Bill S755

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S755 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1677
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Work Comp L; amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.6635 & A.5745)

2025-S755 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work, including claims for post-traumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder or major depressive disorder resulting from work-related stress when demonstrated that such disorder arose out of extraordinary work-related stress attributable to a distinct work-related event or events directly related to the employment and occurring during the performance of the employee's job duties; amends the effectiveness thereof.

2025-S755 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S755 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    755
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
   mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress; and  to
   amend a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the workers' compensation
   law  relating  to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary
   work-related stress, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  6635
   and A. 5745, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  work-
 ers'  compensation  law,  as  amended  by  a chapter of the laws of 2024
 amending the workers' compensation law relating  to  claims  for  mental
 injury  premised  upon extraordinary work-related stress, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 6635 and A. 5745, is amended  and  two  new
 paragraphs (c) and (d) are added to read as follows:
   (b)  Where a [worker] POLICE OFFICER OR FIREFIGHTER SUBJECT TO SECTION
 THIRTY OF THIS ARTICLE, OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN,  PARAMEDIC,  OR
 OTHER  PERSON CERTIFIED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE IN EMERGENCIES, OR EMER-
 GENCY DISPATCHER files a claim for mental injury premised upon  extraor-
 dinary work-related stress incurred [at work] IN A WORK-RELATED EMERGEN-
 CY, the board may not disallow the claim upon a factual finding that the
 stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the normal work
 environment.
   (C)  THE  BOARD  MAY NOT DISALLOW A CLAIM BY A COVERED EMPLOYEE UPON A
 FACTUAL FINDING THAT THE STRESS WAS NOT GREATER THAN THAT WHICH  USUALLY
 OCCURS  IN  THE NORMAL WORK ENVIRONMENT WHERE A CLAIM FOR POST-TRAUMATIC
 STRESS DISORDER (PTSD), ACUTE STRESS DISORDER OR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISOR-
 DER RESULTING FROM WORK-RELATED  STRESS  IS  FILED  UPON  SUBMISSION  OF
 MEDICAL  EVIDENCE  BASED ON THE CRITERIA CONTAINED IN THE VERSION OF THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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