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Relating to standards for determination of loss or permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation and including applicability provisions
Topics:InsuranceJobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 12, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 When workers are injured on the job, doctors use specific medical guides to decide how much permanent disability a person has. This law changes which version of those guides must be used to make those decisions. Instead of using older rules, doctors will now use the most recent annual update available.1
Read the official explanation
Under current law, determinations of extent of loss or percentage of permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation use the guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment published by the American medical association, as adopted by the workers’ compensation commissioner by rule. This bill specifies that the most recent annual update to the most recent edition of the guides shall be used. The bill strikes the requirement that the workers’ compensation commissioner adopt the guides by rule. The workers’ compensation commissioner has adopted the fifth edition of the guides, published in 2001, by rule. The most recent annual update to the most recent edition of the guides is the 2023 update to the sixth edition. The bill applies to determinations of extent of loss or percentage of permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation occurring on or after the effective date of the bill.
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