Adds chronic pain disorder as a justifiable ailment for which one may receive compensatory payments under the workers' compensation law; defines chronic pain disorder as any process which causes pain in patients suffering from diseases known to be chronic and incurable.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2239
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- 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 including
chronic pain disorder as a compensable occupational disease
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the workers'
2 compensation law, as renumbered by chapter 665 of the laws of 1971, is
3 renumbered paragraph 31 and a new paragraph 30 is added to read as
4 follows:
5 30. Chronic pain disorder.30. Any process which
6 causes pain in patients
7 suffering from diseases
8 known to be chronic
9 and incurable.
10 § 2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the work-
11 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 1971, is
12 amended to read as follows:
13 Nothing in paragraph [thirty] thirty-one of this subdivision shall be
14 construed to apply to any disability or death due to any disease
15 described in paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07408-01-1
