STATE OF NEW YORK
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2020--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES, ABBATE, DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, DeSTEFANO,
JEAN-PIERRE, CRUZ, SIMON, DE LA ROSA, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, DARLING --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of the work-
2 ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
3 chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Where a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty
5 of this article, or emergency medical technician, paramedic, or other
6 person certified to provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
7 dispatcher] worker files a claim for mental injury premised upon
8 extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency]
9 at work, the board may not disallow the claim[,] upon a factual finding
10 that the stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the
11 normal work environment.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00070-05-1
