Defines temporary total disability as the injured employee's inability to perform such employee's pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment offered by the employer that is consistent with such employee's disability.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8132
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, JACOBSON, REYES, COLTON, DAVILA -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to defining
temporary total disability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 15 of the workers' compensation
2 law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 2. Temporary total disability. In case of temporary total disability,
5 which shall consist of the injured employee's inability to perform such
6 employee's pre-injury employment duties or any modified employment
7 offered by the employer that is consistent with such employee's disabil-
8 ity, sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages
9 shall be paid to the employee during the continuance thereof, except as
10 otherwise provided in this chapter.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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