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A5809 • 2025

Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year

Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Harry B. Bronson
Last action
2026-05-29
Official status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year

Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-29 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S4832A

  2. 2026-05-28 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  3. 2026-05-28 Assembly

    REPORTED

  4. 2026-05-28 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.224

  5. 2026-05-28 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.224

  6. 2026-04-28 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  7. 2026-04-22 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR

  8. 2026-04-22 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 5809A

  9. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LABOR

  10. 2025-02-20 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year
Requires the workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every year, including recommendations to modernize such board and certain data regarding claims made and decisions rendered on such claims.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          5809

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  requiring
          the  workers' compensation board to submit a supplemental report every
          year thereafter

          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 153-a to read as follows:
     3    § 153-A. SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT.  THE BOARD SHALL ON OR BEFORE THE  FIRST
     4  DAY  OF  FEBRUARY, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER,
     5  MAKE IN WRITING TO THE GOVERNOR, THE SPEAKER OF  THE  ASSEMBLY  AND  THE
     6  TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT ON THE STATUS OF
     7  THE  WORKERS'  COMPENSATION  BOARD  AND METHODS TO MODERNIZE SUCH BOARD,
     8  WHICH SHALL BE DELIVERED IN ADDITION TO THE ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED UNDER
     9  SECTION ONE HUNDRED  FIFTY-THREE  OF  THIS  ARTICLE.  SUCH  SUPPLEMENTAL
    10  REPORT  SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, DATA AND INFORMATION SETS
    11  AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING:
    12    1. THE STATUS OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD  AND  RECOMMENDATIONS
    13  TO MODERNIZE SUCH BOARD;
    14    2.  THE  TOTAL  NUMBER  OF CLAIMANTS WHO HAVE FILED A CLAIM BEFORE THE
    15  WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD;
    16    3. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CLAIMS IN WHICH AN AWARD OR DECISION WAS  MADE,
    17  AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CLAIMS IN WHICH A COURT ORDER WAS MADE;
    18    4.  THE  AVERAGE  LENGTH  OF  TIME BETWEEN THE TIME A CLAIMANT FILES A
    19  CLAIM TO THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD AND THE TIME AN AWARD OR  DECI-
    20  SION, OR COURT ORDER, IS MADE IN REGARDS TO SUCH CLAIM;
    21    5.  THE NUMBER OF CLAIMS IN WHICH THE TIME TO AN AWARD OR DECISION, OR
    22  COURT ORDER, WAS GREATER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME AS DETAILED  BY  SUBDIVI-
    23  SION FOUR OF THIS SECTION, AND REASONS WHY SUCH CLAIMS WERE GREATER THAN
    24  THE AVERAGE TIME;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08829-01-5
        A. 5809                             2

     1    6.  THE  NUMBER  OF  CLAIMS IN WHICH FRIVOLOUS APPEALS WERE MADE BY AN
     2  EMPLOYER, AND IF ANY AWARD OR DECISION, OR COURT ORDER, RELATED TO  SUCH
     3  CLAIMS  WERE  MADE  IN  A TIME THAT WAS GREATER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME AS
     4  DETAILED BY AND CROSS REFERENCED WITH SUBDIVISIONS FOUR AND FIVE OF THIS
     5  SECTION; AND
     6    7.  ALL  OTHER SUCH DATA AND INFORMATION SETS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THE
     7  REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION OR MAY BE USEFUL TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS  AS
     8  REQUIRED HEREIN, AS DETERMINED BY THE CHAIR OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION
     9  BOARD.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.