Assembly Bill A1400

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits for an employee with a permanent total disability

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A1400 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15, add §208-a, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A598
2011-2012: A186
2013-2014: A1668
2015-2016: A1386
2019-2020: A255
2021-2022: A1207

2017-A1400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits for an employee with a permanent total disability to be based on an increase of the consumer price index as promulgated by the U.S. department of labor.

2017-A1400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1400
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
   COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, GUNTHER, HOOPER, MAGEE, ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
   for cost-of-living adjustments of disability benefits in certain cases

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 15 of the workers' compensation law is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  COST-OF-LIVING  ADJUSTMENTS  OF  DISABILITY  BENEFITS  IN CERTAIN
 CASES. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW,  IN  ADDITION  TO
 ANY  OTHER  AMOUNT RECEIVED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE AS DISABILITY BENE-
 FITS, AN EMPLOYEE WITH A PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY OR THE  BENEFICIARY-
 DEPENDENT OF SUCH EMPLOYEE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO AN ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCE,
 TO BE KNOWN AS A COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT ALLOWANCE, PAYABLE ANNUALLY.
   (B)  THE  COST-OF-LIVING  ADJUSTMENT  ALLOWANCE  SHALL  BE COMPUTED BY
 APPLYING AN ADJUSTMENT FOR REGIONAL COSTS OF LIVING AND SHALL  BE  BASED
 ON  FIFTY  PERCENT OF THE ANNUAL INCREASE IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AS
 PROMULGATED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.
   § 2. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new  section
 208-a to read as follows:
   §  208-A. COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENTS OF DISABILITY BENEFITS IN CERTAIN
 CASES. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, IN ADDITION TO ANY
 OTHER AMOUNT RECEIVED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE AS  DISABILITY  BENEFITS,
 AN  EMPLOYEE WITH A PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY OR THE BENEFICIARY-DEPEN-
 DENT OF SUCH EMPLOYEE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO AN ADDITIONAL  ALLOWANCE,  TO
 BE KNOWN AS A COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT ALLOWANCE, PAYABLE ANNUALLY.
   2. THE COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT ALLOWANCE SHALL BE COMPUTED BY APPLY-
 ING  AN  ADJUSTMENT  FOR  REGIONAL COSTS OF LIVING AND SHALL BE BASED ON
 FIFTY PERCENT OF THE ANNUAL INCREASE IN  THE  CONSUMER  PRICE  INDEX  AS
 PROMULGATED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.

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