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Relating to preexisting military service-related disabilities covered by the second injury fund and including applicability provisions
Topics:Veterans & military
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 13, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 19, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If an employee has a permanent disability from a work injury involving a hand, arm, foot, leg, or eye, their employer must pay for the full extent of that injury regardless of any previous military-related disabilities. Once the employer's required payments end, the state's second injury fund will step in to cover the remaining disability amount. This rule applies to any qualifying injuries that happen on or after the bill becomes law.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to preexisting military service-related disabilities covered by the second injury fund and includes applicability provisions. The bill makes employers liable for the permanent disability of an employee by a compensable injury which resulted in the loss of or loss of use of a hand, arm, foot, leg, or eye to the degree of disability which would have resulted from the latter injury if there had been no preexisting military service-related disability. The bill requires, after the expiration of the full period provided by law for payments from the employer, for the state second injury fund to provide compensation to the employee to the degree of permanent disability involved after first deducting the compensable value of the preexisting military service-related disability. The bill provides that it shall apply to injuries on or after the effective date of the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 19, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.
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