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A06208 Summary:
BILL NO | A06208 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S05867 |
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SPONSOR | Joyner |
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COSPNSR | Hevesi, Cruz, Burgos, Lunsford, Wallace |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §§20 & 25, Work Comp L | |
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Provides that either party to a workers compensation claim can request a hearing; requires a stenographic record of all hearings held. |
A06208 Actions:
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04/03/2023 | referred to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/22/2023 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/24/2023 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/24/2023 | rules report cal.262 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/24/2023 | ordered to third reading rules cal.262 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/24/2023 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/24/2023 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/24/2023 | REFERRED TO LABOR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2023 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S5867 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2023 | 3RD READING CAL.1508 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2023 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2023 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11/29/2023 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12/08/2023 | vetoed memo.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12/08/2023 | tabled |
A06208 Committee Votes:
Heastie | Excused | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Hawley | Excused | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Palmesano | Aye | ||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Excused | ||||||||
Dickens | Aye | ||||||||
Davila | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
Joyner | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | DiPietro | Aye | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Morinello | Aye | ||||||
Hevesi | Absent | DeStefano | Aye | ||||||
Bronson | Aye | Durso | Aye | ||||||
Rozic | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Steck | Aye | Smullen | Aye | ||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | Bendett | Aye | ||||||
Cruz | Aye | Slater | Aye | ||||||
Reyes | Aye | ||||||||
Ramos | Aye | ||||||||
Jacobson | Aye | ||||||||
Burgos | Aye | ||||||||
Zinerman | Aye | ||||||||
Taylor | Aye | ||||||||
Sillitti | Aye | ||||||||
Tapia | Aye | ||||||||
Lucas | Aye | ||||||||
Alvarez | Aye | ||||||||
Ardila | Aye | ||||||||
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A06208 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Flood
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chang
ER
Friend
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Clark
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallahan
Yes
Levenberg
ER
Pirozzolo
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Curran
Yes
Glick
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tannousis
ER
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blumencranz
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
ER
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Bores
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
ER
McDonough
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Dickens
Yes ‡
Hawley
Yes
McGowan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walker
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
ER
Meeks
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Brook-Krasny
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Brown E
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Miller
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Norris
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Joyner
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
ER
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A06208 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6208 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the parties' rights to a hearing upon application to the workers' compen- sation board and requiring a stenographic record of all hearings held The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 20 of the workers' 2 compensation law are renumbered subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 and a new subdi- 3 vision 1 is added to read as follows: 4 1. The board shall index a claim for workers' compensation immediately 5 upon the receipt of a medical report in addition to either a claim filed 6 by the injured worker or an employer's report of injury or illness. 7 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 20 of the workers' compensation law, 8 as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996 and as renumbered by section 9 one of this act, is amended to read as follows: 10 2. [At any time after the expiration of the first seven days of disa-11bility on the part of an injured employee, or at any time after the12employee's death, a claim for compensation may be presented to the13employer or to the chair. The] Within sixty days after a claim for 14 compensation has been indexed, the board shall hold an initial hearing 15 for each claim and shall have full power and authority to determine all 16 questions in relation to the payment of claims presented to it for 17 compensation under the provisions of this chapter. The chair or board 18 shall thereafter make or cause to be made such investigation as it deems 19 necessary, and upon application of either party or an attorney repres- 20 enting either party, shall order a hearing before a referee to take 21 place within forty-five calendar days of the application from either 22 party, and within thirty days after a claim for compensation is submit- 23 ted under this section, or such hearing closed, shall make or deny an 24 award, determining such claim for compensation, and file the same in the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09993-01-3A. 6208 2 1 office of the chair. No application for a hearing made by a party or an 2 attorney pursuant to this section shall be subject to limitations, 3 prerequisites, or penalties imposed by the board. Immediately after such 4 filing the chair shall send to the parties a copy of the decision. Upon 5 a hearing pursuant to this section either party may present evidence and 6 be represented by counsel. The decision of the board shall be final as 7 to all questions of fact, and, except as provided in section twenty- 8 three of this article, as to all questions of law. Except as provided 9 in section twenty-seven of this article, all awards of the board shall 10 draw simple interest from thirty days after the making thereof at the 11 rate provided in section five thousand four of the civil practice law 12 and rules. Whenever a hearing or proceeding for the determination of a 13 claim for compensation is begun before a referee, pursuant to the 14 provisions of this chapter, such hearing or proceeding or any adjourned 15 hearing thereon shall continue before the same referee until a final 16 determination awarding or denying compensation, except in the absence, 17 inability or disqualification to act of such referee, or for other good 18 cause, in which event such hearing or proceeding may be continued before 19 another referee by order of the chair or board. 20 § 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 25 of the workers' 21 compensation law, as amended by chapter 61 of the laws of 1986, is 22 amended to read as follows: 23 (c) The board shall keep an accurate stenographic record and tran- 24 script recorded by a verbatim reporter in the employ of the board of all 25 hearings held and provide the minutes, at no cost, to the injured worker 26 and their representative in the native language of the injured worker. 27 All decisions shall be issued to the injured worker in their native 28 language. Whenever a hearing must be continued or adjourned because the 29 carrier or employer has engaged in dilatory tactics or exhibited unjus- 30 tified lack of preparedness, the board shall impose a penalty of twen- 31 ty-five dollars to be paid to the fund created by subdivision two of 32 section one hundred fifty-one of this chapter and shall in addition make 33 an award of seventy-five dollars payable to the injured worker or his or 34 her dependants. Dilatory tactics may include but shall not be limited 35 to: failing to subpoena medical witnesses or to secure an order to show 36 cause as directed by the referee, failing to bring proper files, failing 37 to appear, failing to produce witnesses or documents after they have 38 been requested by the referee or examiner or as directed by the hearing 39 notice, unnecessarily protracting the production of evidence, or engag- 40 ing in a pattern of delay which unduly delays resolution, except that no 41 penalty shall be imposed nor award made under this subdivision if the 42 carrier or employer produces evidence sufficient to excuse its conduct 43 to the satisfaction of the referee. 44 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.