New York S 2537: Relates to the maintenance, improvement and repair of certain town highways

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S02537 Summary:

BILL NOS02537 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02748

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSRBRISPORT, JACKSON, MAYER, RYAN C

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §15, Work Comp L

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Relates to eligibility for classification as permanent total disability; includes inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability.

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BILL NOS02537 

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

05/20/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

06/10/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/10/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1733

06/10/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A2748

&nbspA02748 AMEND= Bronson

&nbsp01/22/2025referred to labor

&nbsp01/28/2025reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/06/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/09/2025reported 

&nbsp06/09/2025rules report cal.491

&nbsp06/09/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.491

&nbsp06/09/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/09/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp06/09/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/10/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S2537

&nbsp06/10/20253RD READING CAL.1733

&nbsp06/10/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/10/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp12/08/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp12/12/2025vetoed memo.102

&nbsp12/12/2025tabled

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2537

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, BRISPORT, JACKSON, MAYER -- 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 eligibil-
 ity for classification as permanent total disability

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 15 of the workers' compensation
 2 law, as amended by chapter 675 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 1. Permanent total disability. In case of total disability adjudged to
 5 be permanent sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly
 6 wages shall be paid to the employee during the continuance of such total
 7 disability. Loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both
 8 legs, or both eyes, or of any two thereof, or inability to perform the
 9 full range of sedentary work, or approval for federal social security
 10 disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupa-
 11 tional disease shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to the contra-
 12 ry, constitute permanent total disability. In all other cases permanent
 13 total disability shall be determined in accordance with the facts.
 14 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an injured employee
 15 disabled due to the loss or total loss of use of both eyes, or both
 16 hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or of any two thereof
 17 shall not suffer any diminution of [his] such employee's compensation by
 18 engaging in business or employment provided [his] such employee's earn-
 19 ings or wages, when combined with [his] such employee's compensation,
 20 shall not be in excess of the wage base on which the maximum weekly
 21 compensation benefit is computed under the law in effect at time of such
 22 earning; further provided, that if the combination exceeds such wage
 23 base, the compensation shall be diminished to an amount which, together
 24 with [his] such employee's earnings or wages, shall equal the wage base;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06065-01-5

 S. 2537 2

 1 and further provided that the application of this subdivision shall not
 2 result in reduction of compensation which an injured employee who is
 3 disabled due to the loss or total loss of use of both eyes, or both
 4 hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs or of any two thereof,
 5 would otherwise be entitled to under any other provision of this
 6 sectio