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| Friday November 13, 2009 | |
| Specific details can be found at: http://open.nysenate.gov/openleg/votes/ 82009 | |
| A1009 1/7/09 referred to labor | Authorizes and directs the workers' compensation board to redetermine the award of volunteer firefighter disability benefits to William DuBois of New Paltz, New York |
| A1213 1/7/09 referred to labor | Requires consideration of employer's loss experience in rate setting for workers' compensation insurance |
| A1867 (Same as: S2247) 6/8/09 REFERRED TO RULES | Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farmworkers |
| A2021B (Same as: S2776B) 8/26/09 signed chap.351 | Provides that certain workers' compensation payments may be made in one lump sum without commutation to a present value amount |
| A2057 (Same as: S2267) 1/15/09 referred to labor | Provides an exemption from workers' compensation coverage under certain circumstances |
| A2869 1/21/09 referred to labor | Permits one to three owner-officer corporations to elect workers' compensation coverage for such owner-officers as if they were employees or decline coverage |
| A2920 1/21/09 referred to labor | Excepts from application of workers' compensation law provisions certain owner-operators or lessees of liveries and radio dispatching entities |
| A3569 1/27/09 referred to labor | Requires employers to present substantial evidence when contesting workers' compensation claims |
| A3704 (Same as: S3908) 1/28/09 referred to labor | Authorizes as a pilot program certified nurse practitioners to provide care and treatment to injured employees in workers' compensation cases |
| A3716 1/28/09 referred to labor | Requires the availability of and reimbursement for chiropractic care under the workers' compensation law to be provided on the same basis as care by a physician |
| A395A 5/11/09 print number 395a | Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed social workers under the workers' compensation program |
| A4657 2/5/09 referred to labor | Requires health insurers of workers' compensation claimants to make medical payment pending the outcome if otherwise covered |
| A4669 2/5/09 referred to labor | Provides workers' compensation benefits to lifeguards who contract skin cancer |
| A4691 2/5/09 referred to insurance | Relates to workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance |
| A4876 2/6/09 referred to governmental employees | Eliminates reduction of New York state and local retirement pensions based on workers' compensation lump sum payments after actuarial lifetime |
| A4880 (Same as: S530) 2/6/09 referred to labor | Exempts injuries or occupational diseases sustained in perpetration of a felony or misdemeanor from workers' compensation coverage |
| A4984 (Same as: S2732) 6/22/09 REFERRED TO RULES | Includes Lyme disease as an occupational disease which is compensable under the workers' compensation law |
| A5289 2/11/09 referred to labor | Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program |
| A6122 2/25/09 referred to labor | Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed social workers under the workers' compensation program |
| A6219 2/26/09 referred to social services | Provides a social services lien for public assistance on awards pursuant to workers' compensation |
| A7446 4/6/09 referred to governmental operations | Directs the state to provide liability and workers' compensation insurance coverage for volunteers who aid in the protection of animals in a disaster |
| A7661 | Relates to the livery driver benefit fund; authorizes the chair of the workers' compensation board to review and approve certain affirmations; provides that any monetary penalty imposed to be retained by the workers' compensation board. Relates to the livery driver benefit fund; authorizes the chair of the workers' compensation board to review and approve certain affirmations; provides that any monetary penalty imposed to be retained by the workers' compensation board. |
| A8742 (Same as: S5791) 6/5/09 referred to labor | Provides benefits for injury or sickness, pregnancy or family leave |
| S1153 (Same as: A6727) 7/16/09 COMMITTED TO RULES | Provides that the period of probable usefulness for certain payments by the village of Frankfort shall be 15 years |
| S1795 2/6/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Enacts the protection in the workplace act |
| S217 1/7/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Relates to chronic pain disorder as a compensable occupational disease |
| S221 1/7/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Makes special provisions for disabled claimant for unemployment insurance |
| S2247 (Same as: A1867) 6/1/09 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES | Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farmworkers |
| S2267 (Same as: A2057) 2/17/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides an exemption from workers' compensation coverage under certain circumstances |
| S2364 2/19/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Permits any medical provider authorized by the workers' compensation board to treat injured |
| S2463 2/20/09 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY | Establishes health care organization accountability for delay, failure or refusal to approve, provide, arrange or timely pay for certain health care services |
| S2732 (Same as: A4984) 2/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Includes Lyme disease as an occupational disease which is compensable under the workers' compensation law |
| S2776 (Same as: A2021) 3/2/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides that certain workers' compensation payments may be made in one lump sum without commutation to a present value amount |
| S2776B (Same as: A2021B) 7/16/09 SUBSTITUTED BY A2021B | Provides that certain workers' compensation payments shall be made in one lump sum without commutation to a present value amount |
| S3273 3/13/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides members of certain religious sects and their immediate families shall not be included in the definition of the term "employees" for workers' compensation purposes |
| S3339 3/16/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Determines workers' compensation rates based upon number of hours worked for an employer |
| S3465A 5/6/09 PRINT NUMBER 3465A | Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed social workers under the workers' compensation program |
| S3779 7/15/09 COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES | Relates to the livery driver benefit fund |
| S3908 (Same as: A3704) 4/3/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Authorizes as a pilot program certified nurse practitioners to provide care and treatment to injured employees in workers' compensation cases |
| S4074 4/9/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides workers' comp benefits for family care |
| S4631 4/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Relates to the establishment of rates of payment and delivery of health care services |
| S508 1/7/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides for presumptive eligibility for workers' compensation for certain persons engaged in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations |
| S5160 4/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides that any person who maintains his or her current workers' compensation insurance shall, subject to the board's approval, be removed from the debarment list |
| S5200 4/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Enacts the "owner-driver protection act" to make public work standards applicable to owner-drivers |
| S5211 4/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Creates a cause of action against a public works contractor for failure to provide certain employee benefits |
| S5233 4/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Requires the availability of and reimbursement for chiropractic care under the workers' compensation law to be provided on the same basis as care by a physician |
| S5234 4/27/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Provides that assessments of self-insurers for the special disability fund shall be based on 110%, rather than 150%, of total disbursements |
| S530 (Same as: A4880) 1/7/09 REFERRED TO LABOR | Exempts injuries or occupational diseases sustained in perpetration of a felony or misdemeanor from workers' compensation coverage |
| S56B (Same as: A156B) 4/1/09 SUBSTITUTED BY A156B | Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the public protection and general government budget for the 2009 - 2010 state fiscal year |
| S5791 (Same as: A8742) 6/5/09 REFERRED TO RULES | Provides benefits for injury or sickness, pregnancy or family leave |
| The information above is taken directly from the website of the New York State Legislative webste and as and as I could and up-to-date as the information that they have posted. | |