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NY A00903
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/11/2023
Primary Sponsor
Latoya Joyner
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AI Summary
- Prohibits workers' compensation cases from being closed or decisions issued without a hearing and notice to all interested parties with opportunity to be heard
- Requires the workers' compensation board to maintain an accurate stenographic record of all hearings and provide minutes at no cost to the injured worker and their representative in the injured worker's native language
- Requires all decisions to be issued to the injured worker in their native language
- Imposes a $25 penalty to the workers' compensation fund and $75 award to the injured worker when carriers or employers engage in dilatory tactics or unjustified lack of preparedness, including failing to appear, produce witnesses, or bring required files
- Repeals subdivision 2-b of section 25 of the workers' compensation law and renumbers subdivision 2-c as subdivision 2-b
Legislative Description
Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation, requires a stenographic record of all hearings held; requires minutes and decisions to be provided to the injured worker in their native language.
Last Action
enacting clause stricken
1/10/2024
Committee Referrals
Labor1/11/2023
Full Bill Text
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