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1997 SESSION
HB 2556 Workers' compensation; occupational diseases.
Introduced by: C. Richard Cranwell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Workers' compensation; ordinary diseases of life, carpal tunnel syndrome. Defines hearing loss and the condition of carpal tunnel syndrome as ordinary diseases of life for the purpose of receiving worker's compensation benefits. Ordinary diseases of life are compensable if a claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the disease arose out of and in the course of employment and did not result from causes outside the employment. The claimant must also prove by clear and convincing evidence that the disease either (i) follows as an incident of occupational disease, (ii) is a disease contracted in the course of employment within the medical or a similar field, or (iii) is characteristic of the employment and was caused by conditions peculiar to such employment.
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 970587176 pdf
- 02/03/97 House: Committee substitute printed 978477176-H1 pdf
- 02/27/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2556ER) pdf
- 03/19/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/20/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 970587176
- 01/20/97 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 01/21/97 House: Assigned to Finance sub-committee: 2
- 02/02/97 House: Reported from Finance with sub. (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/97 House: Read first time
- 02/03/97 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/97 House: Committee substitute printed 978477176-H1
- 02/04/97 House: Read second time
- 02/04/97 House: Committee substitute agreed to 978477176-H1
- 02/04/97 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 978477176-H1
- 02/04/97 House: Constitutional reading dispensed (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 House: Passed House (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/06/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/97 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/17/97 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/18/97 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/97 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/97 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/97 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2556ER)
- 03/04/97 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/97 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/97 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/15/97 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 405 (effective 7/1/97)
- 03/19/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0405)