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2012 SESSION

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HB 137 Workers' compensation; injuries presumed to be in course of employment.

Introduced by: Gregory D. Habeeb | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Workers' compensation; injuries presumed to be in course of employment.  Revises the provision enacted in 2011 that created a presumption, in the absence of a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, that an injury is work related if an employee is physically or mentally unable to testify and there is unrebutted prima facie evidence that the injury was work related. This measure substitutes the phrase "arose out of and were in the course of employment" for "were work related."

FULL TEXT

• 01/04/12  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101417D  pdf | impact statement
• 03/07/12  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB137ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 05/18/12  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• Governor's recommendation

HISTORY

• 01/04/12  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101417D
• 01/04/12  House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 01/17/12  House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (22-Y 0-N)
• 01/19/12  House: Read first time
• 01/20/12  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/23/12  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 01/23/12  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
• 01/24/12  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/24/12  Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 02/27/12  Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
• 02/29/12  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/01/12  Senate: Read third time
• 03/01/12  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/01/12  Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 03/01/12  Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 03/07/12  House: Enrolled
• 03/07/12  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB137ER)
• 03/07/12  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/08/12  Senate: Signed by President
• 04/09/12  House: Governor's recommendation received by House
• 04/17/12  House: Placed on Calendar
• 04/18/12  House: House rejected Governor's recommendation (39-Y 55-N)
• 04/18/12  House: VOTE: REJECTED (39-Y 55-N)
• 04/18/12  House: Communicated to Governor
• 05/18/12  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 841 (effective 7/1/12)
• 05/18/12  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0841)