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Relating to workers’ compensation benefits involving violations of occupational safety and health or child labor laws, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 30, 2024
- 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 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 If a worker is injured while their employer is breaking safety rules or using underage workers, the amount of workers' compensation benefits they receive will double. Employers who break these rules must also pay a $5,000 fine. This change applies to any new injuries that happen after the law starts.1
Read the official explanation
This bill provides that when an injury for which workers’ compensation benefits would be payable occurs in the course of employment in which the employer is found to be in violation of Code chapter (occupational safety and health), or the employee is found to have performed work for which the employee was not of permitted age under Code chapter (child labor), the workers’ compensation commissioner shall increase the amount of benefits awarded by 100 percent. The employer shall also be subject to a civil penalty of $5,000, to be collected by the workers’ compensation commissioner and deposited in the second injury fund. The bill applies to injuries occurring on or after the effective date of the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 30, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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