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2003 SESSION
HB 2728 Workers compensation; smallpox vaccine.
Introduced by: John M. O'Bannon, III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Workers’ compensation; smallpox vaccine. Expands the definition of “injury” for purposes of the workers’s compensation, to include any injury, disease or condition that (i) arises out of and in the course of employment of an employee of a hospital, employee of a health care provider, employee of any state or local health department, member of a search and rescue organization, salaried or volunteer firefighter, paramedic, or emergency medical technician, member of the State Police Officers' Retirement System, member of a local police department, sheriff or deputy sheriff, or Capitol Police Officer, and (ii) results from the administration of the vaccinia vaccine, Cidofivir, or Vaccinia Immune Globulin, as part of federal smallpox countermeasures, or from the transmission of vaccinia in the course of employment from an employee participating in such countermeasures to a co-employee of the same employer.
FULL TEXT
- 01/16/03 House: Presented & ordered printed w/emg. clause 033718870 pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/03 House: Printed as engrossed 033718870-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/20/03 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2728ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/02/03 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2728ER2) pdf
- 04/03/03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0999) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/16/03 House: Presented & ordered printed w/emg. clause 033718870
- 01/16/03 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/28/03 House: Reported from C. & L. with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/03 House: Read first time
- 01/31/03 House: Read second time
- 01/31/03 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/31/03 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/31/03 House: Printed as engrossed 033718870-E
- 02/01/03 House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/03 House: VOTE: PASSAGE EMERGENCY (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/03 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/03/03 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/03 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/17/03 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/03 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/03 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/03 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/03 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/18/03 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/18/03 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/18/03 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 1-N)
- 02/18/03 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/03 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/03 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/03 House: VOTE: ADOPTION EMERGENCY (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/03 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2728ER)
- 02/20/03 House: Enrolled
- 02/20/03 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/03 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/24/03 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/02/03 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/02/03 House: House concurred in Gov's rec. BLOCK VOICE VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/03 Senate: Senate concurred in Gov's recommendation (39-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/03 Senate: VOTE: ADOPT GOV. RECOMM. (39-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/03 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/02/03 House: Reenrolled
- 04/02/03 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/02/03 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/02/03 House: Enacted, Chapter 999 (effective 4/2/03)
- 04/02/03 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2728ER2)
- 04/03/03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0999)