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2021 SESSION
SB 1375 Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19.
Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
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 and only applies to a person who was diagnosed a person who was diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus on or after July 1, 2021, and whose death or disability caused by infection from the COVID-19 virus occurred on or after July 1, 2021. This bill incorporates SB 1342.
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- 01/13/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101733D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21104340D-S1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101733D
- 01/13/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/25/21 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/03/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21104340D-S1
- 02/03/21 Senate: Incorporates SB1342 (Vogel)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21104340D-S1
- 02/04/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1375S1
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote