STATE OF NEW YORK
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5745
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES, DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, DeSTEFANO, SIMON,
JEAN-PIERRE, COLTON, DARLING, FORREST, CRUZ, BURGOS -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Labor
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.
LBD08319-01-3
