Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5809
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to requiring
the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every
year thereafter
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new
2 section 153-a to read as follows:
3 § 153-a. Supplemental report. The board shall on or before the first
4 day of February, two thousand twenty-seven, and every year thereafter,
5 make in writing to the governor, the speaker of the assembly and the
6 temporary president of the senate a supplemental report on the status of
7 the workers' compensation board and methods to modernize such board,
8 which shall be delivered in addition to the annual report required under
9 section one hundred fifty-three of this article. Such supplemental
10 report shall include, but not be limited to, data and information sets
11 and recommendations concerning:
12 1. the status of the workers' compensation board and recommendations
13 to modernize such board;
14 2. the total number of claimants who have filed a claim before the
15 workers' compensation board;
16 3. the total number of claims in which an award or decision was made,
17 and the total number of claims in which a court order was made;
18 4. the average length of time between the time a claimant files a
19 claim to the workers' compensation board and the time an award or deci-
20 sion, or court order, is made in regards to such claim;
21 5. the number of claims in which the time to an award or decision, or
22 court order, was greater than the average time as detailed by subdivi-
23 sion four of this section, and reasons why such claims were greater than
24 the average time;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 6. the number of claims in which frivolous appeals were made by an
2 employer, and if any award or decision, or court order, related to such
3 claims were made in a time that was greater than the average time as
4 detailed by and cross referenced with subdivisions four and five of this
5 section; and
6 7. all other such data and information sets that are relevant to the
7 requirements of this section or may be useful to the recommendations as
8 required herein, as determined by the chair of the workers' compensation
9 board.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
