S6078 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "Joseph Fletcher act"; permits certain claims by essential employees for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 which were previously denied or not timely filed.
- Title
- Relates to permitting certain claims for compensation based on death due to COVID-19 in memory of Joseph Fletcher
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-04-21
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2025-03-05
- Same as
- A695
- Law section
- Workers' Compensation Law
Sponsors
- Kevin S. Parker State Senator, District 21
Co-sponsors
- Nathalia Fernandez State Senator, District 34
Heard in committee
Same as
- A695 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Labor, 2026-04-21 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Labor, 2025-05-27