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2021 SESSION

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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)