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1 Co-sponsor
History
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.599
- Referred to labor
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.359
- Referred to labor
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Relates to covered employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Keith L.T. Wright
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4234
Title of bill
An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to covered employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 would make a technical amendment to Chapter 481 of 2010, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It would amend section 202(2) of the Workers Compensation Law to clarify that domestic workers who work at least twenty hours per week and meet the duration of employment standard of four weeks are covered under the temporary disability benefits law.
Section 2 is the effective date of the bill.
Justification
This bill would make clear the original intent in the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in amending section 201 (5) of the Workers Compensation Law to eliminate the forty hour requirement and provide temporary disability benefits coverage for workers who work at least twenty hours. The Sponsor's Memorandum on the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights stated, "In addition, the bill grants disability insurance to part time domestic workers...". In an August 31, 2010 letter to Governor Paterson, the Workers Compensation Board stated its support of this proposal and urged that this technical correction be made.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None to New York State and its subdivisions.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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