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HB 2728 Workers compensation; smallpox vaccine.

Introduced by: John M. O'Bannon, III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION:

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.

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Workers’ compensation; smallpox vaccine. Expands the definition of “injury,” for purposes of the workers’ 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, health care provider, or state or local health department or of a firefighter, emergency medical technician or other specified provider, 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.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Workers’ compensation; smallpox vaccine. Expands the definition of “injury” for workers’ compensation purposes to include any injury, disease or condition resulting from the administration of the vaccinia vaccine to any employee, as part of federal smallpox countermeasures.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Workers’ compensation; smallpox vaccine. Expands the definition of “injury” for workers’ compensation purposes to include any injury, disease or condition resulting from the administration of the vaccinia vaccine to any employee of a hospital, as part of federal smallpox countermeasures.