---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishes a registry of workplace fatalities to record information pertaining to all incidents under which an employee suffers a fatal injury"
description: "Establishes a registry of workplace fatalities to record information pertaining to all incidents under which an employee suffers a fatal injury; requires the filing of 72-hour and 90-day reports pertaining to such workplace fatalities and requires the department of labor to publish such reports on the department's website."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 8828"
citation: "New York S 8828 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["RAMOS"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-07-20"
last_action: "2020-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf8dda71-6845-4674-8fb2-ca3579ffbf35"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S8828"
source_hash: "d37c7ebd4df458259e40a903ad16162217de5bd4d19e7c15977ff0dd9cfc08c6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 8828 (2019-2020) — Establishes a registry of workplace fatalities to record information pertaining to all incidents under which an employee suffers a fatal injury

Establishes a registry of workplace fatalities to record information pertaining to all incidents under which an employee suffers a fatal injury; requires the filing of 72-hour and 90-day reports pertaining to such workplace fatalities and requires the department of labor to publish such reports on the department's website.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S8828** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8828&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **115–26** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **57–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- RAMOS — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-07-20** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1027
- **2020-07-23** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-07-23** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-07-23** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5965A
- **2020-07-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.302
- **2020-07-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-07-23** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-12-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-12-23** SIGNED CHAP.375 `executive-signature`
- **2020-12-23** APPROVAL MEMO.68

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf8dda71-6845-4674-8fb2-ca3579ffbf35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).