STATE OF NEW YORK
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4336--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the defi-
nition of "employer" for the purposes of disability benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 201 of the workers' compensation
2 law, as added by chapter 600 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a person,
5 partnership, association, corporation, legal representative of a
6 deceased employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, partnership,
7 association or corporation, who has persons in employment as defined in
8 subdivision six of this section and who has twenty or more employees,
9 but does not include the state, a municipal corporation, local govern-
10 mental agency, other political subdivisions or public authority.
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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