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2021 SESSION
HB 2207 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
Introduced by: Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and correctional officers 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 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.
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HISTORY
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100861D
- 01/13/21 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/18/21 House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/19/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
- 01/21/21 House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (21-Y 1-N)
- 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 (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 House: Read first time
- 02/03/21 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/21 House: Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/04/21 House: VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 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)