New York S 4047: Creates the New York Civil Gideon Act

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S04047 Summary:

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Requires employers to provide notice of insurance requirements for injured employees to such employees in their native language; requires employers to provide notice of how to file a claim to injured workers; establishes a penalty for failure to comply with such notice requirements.

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01/31/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4047

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 31, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to notice of
 insurance requirements for injured employees

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 51 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by
 2 chapter 105 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 51. Posting of notice regarding compensation. 1. Every employer who
 4 has complied with section fifty of this article shall post and maintain
 5 in a conspicuous place or places in and about [his] their place or plac-
 6 es of business typewritten or printed in English [and], Spanish, and any
 7 other native language of employees notices in form prescribed by the
 8 [chairman] chair, stating the fact that [he has] they have complied with
 9 all the rules and regulations of the [chairman] chair and the board and
 10 that [he has] they have secured the payment of compensation to [his]
 11 their employees and their dependents in accordance with the provisions
 12 of this chapter, but failure to post such notice as herein provided
 13 shall not in any way affect the exclusiveness of the remedy provided for
 14 by section eleven of this chapter. Every employer who owns or operates
 15 automotive or horse-drawn vehicles and has no minimum staff of regular
 16 employees required to report for work at an established place of busi-
 17 ness maintained by such employer and every employer who is engaged in
 18 the business of moving household goods or furniture shall post such
 19 notices in each and every vehicle owned or operated by [him] them. Fail-
 20 ure to post or maintain such notice in any of said vehicles shall
 21 constitute presumptive evidence that such employer has failed to secure
 22 the payment of compensation. The [chairman] chair may require any
 23 employer to furnish a written statement at any time showing the stock
 24 corporation, mutual corporation or reciprocal insurer in which such
 25 employer is insured or the manner in which such employer has complied

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08524-01-5

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 1 with any provision of this chapter. Failure for a period of ten days to
 2 furnish such written statement shall constitute presumptive evidence
 3 that such employer has neglected or failed in respect of any of the
 4 matters so required. Any employer who fails to comply with the
 5 provisions of this section shall be required to pay to the board a fine
 6 of five hundred dollars for each violation, in addition to any other
 7 penalties imposed by law to be deposited into the uninsured employers'
 8 fund.
 9 2. Whenever an employer is required under section one hundred ten of
 10 this chapter to report the occurrence of a workplace injury to the
 11 board, the employer shall also provide the employee so injured with a
 12 written statement in the employee's native language of the employee's
 13 rights under this chapter, including an explanation of how a claim may
 14 be filed written in plain language by the board and in the employee's
 15 native language.
 16 3. Any employer who is required under section one hundred ten of this
 17 chapter to report the occurrence of a workplace injury who fails to
 18 provide the injured