2024 General Assembly Updates & Tracked Bills

Workers Compensation

Nov 6, 2023

HB 1985 - Hurst - Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. (Reported from Senate Commerce and Labor Committee and Referred to Finance and Appropriations 15-Y 0-N)

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 ...

 

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