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NY A09804
Bill
Status
4/9/2024
Primary Sponsor
Catalina Cruz
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AI Summary
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Allows reopening of workers' compensation death benefit claims for essential workers who died from COVID-19 exposure, if filed within one year of the act's effective date.
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Applies to essential employees as defined by Executive Order 202 (issued March 7, 2020 and expired June 24, 2021) whose COVID-19 exposure occurred during their service.
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Permits the Board of Workers' Compensation to re-hear and determine previously denied COVID-19 death benefit claims that were barred under sections 18 or 28 of the workers' compensation law.
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Takes effect immediately and expires two years after enactment, at which point the provisions are automatically repealed.
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Known as the "Joseph Fletcher act."
Legislative Description
Enacts the "Joseph Fletcher act"; permits certain claims by essential employees for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 which were previously denied or not timely filed.
Last Action
referred to labor
4/9/2024