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2011 SESSION
HB 1705 Workers' compensation; modifications to employee's home and automobile.
Introduced by: Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Workers' compensation; modifications to employee's home and automobile. Authorizes the Workers' Compensation Commission, in awards entered for incapacity for work, to require the employer to furnish and maintain modifications to or equipment for the injured employee's automobile. Such awards may be made upon the determination by the treating physician and the Commission that they are medically necessary. Such an award may be in addition to currently authorized awards for bedside lifts, adjustable beds, and home modifications. The measure also increases the maximum aggregate cost of all such items and modifications on account of any one accident from $25,000 to $42,000.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/11 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102214D pdf | impact statement
- 01/25/11 House: Printed as engrossed 11102214D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/11 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1705ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/26/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/11 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102214D
- 01/10/11 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/13/11 House: Assigned C & L sub: #1
- 01/18/11 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/11 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/11 House: Read first time
- 01/25/11 House: Read second time
- 01/25/11 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/25/11 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1705E
- 01/25/11 House: Printed as engrossed 11102214D-E
- 01/26/11 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/11 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/27/11 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/14/11 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/11 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/11 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/11 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/11 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1705ER)
- 02/23/11 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/11 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/11 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 656 (effective 7/1/11)
- 03/26/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656)