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NY S00755
Bill
Status
2/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Jessica Ramos
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AI Summary
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Expands workers' compensation mental injury claims for specific first responders: police officers, firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, emergency medical personnel, and emergency dispatchers who experience extraordinary work-related stress during emergencies
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Prohibits the workers' compensation board from disallowing claims for PTSD, acute stress disorder, or major depressive disorder solely because the stress was not greater than normal work environment stress
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Requires covered employees to submit medical evidence based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria and demonstrate the disorder arose from extraordinary work-related stress tied to distinct work-related events during job duties
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Clarifies these provisions do not apply to mental injury claims resulting from work-related physical injuries
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Changes the effective date of the related 2024 law from January 1st following enactment to 180 days after enactment
Legislative Description
Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work, including claims for post-traumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder or major depressive disorder resulting from work-related stress when demonstrated that such disorder arose out of extraordinary work-related stress attributable to a distinct work-related event or events directly related to the employment and occurring during the performance of the employee's job duties; amends the effectiveness thereof.
Last Action
SIGNED CHAP.79
2/14/2025