STATE OF NEW YORK
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7425
IN SENATE
April 29, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law in relation to direct
deposit of compensation payments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of section 25 of the work-
2 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 70 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Compensation payments or any portion of compensation payments
5 [may] shall be allowed, upon the written request from an injured worker
6 or a person entitled to a death benefit provided by this chapter, to be
7 deposited directly in a bank for any purpose to an account in the name
8 of such injured worker or person entitled to a death benefit, on forms
9 provided by the board, and duly filed in accordance with such regu-
10 lations[, provided that an injured worker's employer, if such employer
11 is an authorized self insured employer, or otherwise such employer's
12 insurance carrier, has elected to permit the direct deposit of such
13 compensation payments].
14 § 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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