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2021 SESSION
HB 1985 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
Introduced by: Chris L. Hurst | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill provides that the COVID-19 virus is established by a positive diagnostic test for COVID-19, an incubation period consistent with COVID-19, and signs and symptoms of COVID-19 that require medical treatment. The bill provides that such presumption applies to any death or disability occurring on or after March 12, 2020, caused by infection from the COVID-19 virus, provided that for any such death or disability that occurred on or after March 12, 2020, and prior to December 31, 2021, the claimant received a positive diagnosis of COVID-19 from a licensed physician, after either a presumptive positive test or a laboratory-confirmed test for COVID-19, and presented with signs and symptoms of COVID-19 that required medical treatment. The bill provides that such presumptions do not apply to any person offered by his employer a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 unless the person's physician determines in writing that immunization would pose a significant risk to the person's health.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101723D pdf
- 01/21/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103301D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21103301D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/11/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101723D
- 01/11/21 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/14/21 House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/19/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
- 01/21/21 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103301D-H1
- 01/21/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/22/21 House: Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government
- 01/29/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 House: Read first time
- 02/02/21 House: Read second time
- 02/02/21 House: Committee on Labor and Commerce substitute agreed to 21103301D-H1
- 02/02/21 House: Committee on Appropriations amendments agreed to
- 02/02/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB1985EH1
- 02/02/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21103301D-EH1
- 02/03/21 House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/03/21 House: VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)