New York A 486: Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates an employee lien

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A00486 Summary:

BILL NOA00486 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORWoerner

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COSPNSRJackson, Simon, Lemondes, Gonzalez-Rojas, Burdick

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §226, Work Comp L

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Provides for equitable disability policies; prohibits any difference, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, or national origin in the amount or payment of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of the other terms or conditions of any policy of disability insurance under the workers' compensation law.

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BILL NOA00486 

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01/08/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 486

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, JACKSON, SIMON, LEMONDES, GONZALEZ-ROJAS
 -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
 equitable disability policies

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

 1 Section 1. Section 226 of the workers' compensation law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
 3 8-a. No insurance carrier or the state insurance fund who issues,
 4 reinstates, amends or endorses any contract of insurance or rider there-
 5 to providing the benefits required to be paid under this article shall
 6 make or permit any distinction, classification, discrimination, or
 7 otherwise recognize any difference, on the basis of race, color, reli-
 8 gion, sex, marital status, or national origin, in the amount or payment
 9 of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of
 10 the other terms or conditions of any policy of insurance providing the
 11 benefits required to be paid under this article. As used in this
 12 section, sex includes, but is not limited to, conditions unique to one's
 13 sex, such as pregnancy.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01978-01-5

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