STATE OF NEW YORK
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8035
IN SENATE
March 21, 2018
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Introduced by Sens. ALCANTARA, SAVINO -- 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 weekly
wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 14 of the workers' compensation
2 law, as amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 5. If it be established that the injured employee was under the age of
5 [twenty-five] thirty-five when injured, or was accepted to or enrolled
6 in an apprenticeship training program approved by the commissioner of
7 labor pursuant to article twenty-three of the labor law, and that under
8 normal conditions his or her wages would be expected to increase, that
9 fact [may] shall be considered in arriving at his or her average weekly
10 wages.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14816-01-8
