 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1118
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 7, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. BRONSON, REYES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor
 
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation  to  defining
          temporary total disability
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 15 of  the  workers'  compensation
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    2. Temporary total disability. In case of temporary total  disability,
     5  which  shall  consist of the injured employee's inability to perform his
     6  or her pre-injury employment duties or any modified  employment  offered
     7  by  the  employer  that  is  consistent  with the employee's disability,
     8  sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages shall be
     9  paid to the employee during the continuance thereof, except as otherwise
    10  provided in this chapter.
    11    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03446-01-1
Defines temporary total disability

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