New York A 3023: Provides an insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose employees complete a safety course for the landscape industry

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A03023 Summary:

BILL NOA03023 

&nbsp

SAME ASNo Same As

&nbsp

SPONSORStirpe

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Add §138, Work Comp L

&nbsp

Provides an insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose employees complete a safety course for the landscape industry.

Go to top A03023 Actions:

BILL NOA03023 

&nbsp

01/23/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

Go to topA03023 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA03023 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA03023 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3023

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
 an insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose employ-
 ees complete a safety course for the landscape industry

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

 1 Section 1. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 138 to read as follows:
 3 § 138. Occupational safety and health administration course; premium
 4 reduction. 1. For purposes of this section, the term "landscape busi-
 5 ness" shall mean a business whose primary concern involves the modifica-
 6 tion of the visible features of an area of land, and shall include, but
 7 not be limited to, lawn care, gardening and the removal or pruning of
 8 trees.
 9 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
 10 insurer doing business within this state who offers workers' compen-
 11 sation insurance to landscape businesses doing business within this
 12 state shall provide a ten percent reduction in its premiums for such
 13 insurance to any landscape business that meets the requirements set
 14 forth in subdivision three of this section.
 15 3. Any person, firm, partnership, limited liability company, corpo-
 16 ration or any other business entity shall receive a ten percent
 17 reduction in its workers' compensation premium for any year in which
 18 fifty percent or more of the employees of such business successfully
 19 complete the ten hour construction safety course for the landscaping
 20 industry approved by the occupational safety and health administration.
 21 Such premium reduction shall be available on an annual basis. Applica-
 22 tion for such premium reduction shall be made in a manner and with a
 23 standardized form to be developed cooperatively between the commission-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05089-01-5

 A. 3023 2

 1 ers of the state insurance fund, the commissioner of labor and the
 2 superintendent of financial services.
 3 4. The commissioners of the state insurance fund, in cooperation with
 4 the commissioner of labor and the superintendent of financial services,
 5 are authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to imple-
 6 ment the provisions of this section.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 8 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 9 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 10 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 11 completed on or before such date.

Go to top 

• 

 Sitemap 

 Request Information 

 Directions and Maps