STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5745 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES, DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, DeSTEFANO, SIMON, JEAN-PIERRE, COLTON, DARLING, FORREST, CRUZ, BURGOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of the work- 2 ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of 3 chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Where a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty 5 of this article, or emergency medical technician, paramedic, or other 6 person certified to provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency 7 dispatcher] worker files a claim for mental injury premised upon 8 extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency] 9 at work, the board may not disallow the claim[,] upon a factual finding 10 that the stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the 11 normal work environment. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08319-01-3