Includes delivery network company workers in the definition of "employee" for purposes of workers' compensation; provides that the employer of a network company deliver worker shall be a delivery network company.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. VALDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to workers'
compensation benefits for delivery network company workers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2 of the workers' compensation law
2 is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
3 For the purposes of this chapter, the employer of a delivery network
4 company worker, as defined in subdivision four of this section, shall be
5 a delivery network company. "Delivery network company" shall mean a
6 person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity
7 that is operating in New York state exclusively using a digital network
8 to connect delivery network company customers with delivery network
9 company workers who provide delivery for orders of products made via a
10 digital network. "Delivery network company" shall not include (i) a
11 transportation network company, as defined by section sixteen hundred
12 ninety-one of the vehicle and traffic law; or (ii) a restaurant, or
13 restaurant chain, that enables customers to place orders for food using
14 a digital network that was created specifically for use by customers of
15 such restaurant or restaurant chain.
16 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 2 of the workers' compensation law is
17 amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
18 "Employee" shall also mean, for the purposes of this chapter, a deliv-
19 ery network company worker, which shall mean an individual who has
20 entered into an agreement with a delivery network company, as defined in
21 subdivision three of this section, to pick up and deliver delivery
22 network company orders for compensation.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14086-01-5
