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 period ...
