What's happening
This bill expands mental injury workers' compensation claims for extraordinary work-related stress to all workers, not just emergency personnel.
Why it matters
Expands mental health protections. by allowing all workers—not just emergency personnel—to file workers' compensation claims for mental injuries resulting from extraordinary work-related stress, recognizing that severe stress can affect anyone in any job.
Removes the requirement that stress be related to an emergency. , meaning claims can be filed for extraordinary stress experienced in any work situation, not just those involving emergencies.
Lowers the burden of proof for affected workers. by preventing the compensation board from dismissing claims solely on the basis that the stress experienced is not greater than what is usually found in the workplace, making it easier for workers to seek help for severe stress.
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Expand Mental Injury Claims
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2 Multi-sponsors
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- Referred to labor
- Referred to labor
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Expand Mental Injury Claims
In Senate Committee · Labor · Sponsor Diane J. Savino
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7424
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 2, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. REYES, ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of the workers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Where a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty of this article, or emergency medical technician, paramedic, or other person certified to provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency dispatcher] worker files a claim for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency] at work, the board may not disallow the claim, upon a factual finding that the stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the normal work environment.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05586-01-9
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