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NY A04812
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Kwani O'Pharrow
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AI Summary
- Establishes that COVID-19 treatment by medical providers is presumed to be on an emergent basis, eliminating the requirement for prior authorization under workers' compensation
- Allows medical providers treating COVID-19 patients to do so without requiring authorization from the workers' compensation board chair
- Reduces the temporary payment of compensation period from one year to sixty days, during which employers can pay without admitting liability
- Requires the board to immediately schedule a hearing to adjudicate claims when an employer ceases temporary compensation payments
- Mandates that notices to injured employees regarding temporary compensation must be printed in sixteen point type for readability
Legislative Description
Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19; and where the applicable head of the member's retirement system or such system's medical board determines COVID-19 to have been a significant contributing factor in the member's death.
Last Action
referred to labor
1/7/2026
Committee Referrals
Labor2/6/2025
Full Bill Text
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