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Relating to preexisting military service-related disabilities covered by the second injury fund and including applicability provisions
Topics:Families & human servicesJobs & workersVeterans & military
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 22, 2023
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- 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 has a disability from their military service and then gets a new work injury, their employer only pays for the damage caused by the new injury. Once the employer's payments end, a state fund will step in to cover the rest of the worker's permanent disability. This fund pays the difference between the total disability and the part caused by the original military injury.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to preexisting military service-related disabilities covered by the second injury fund. The bill provides that if an employee who has suffered any preexisting disability resulting from the employee’s military service becomes permanently disabled by a compensable injury which has resulted in the loss of or loss of use of a bodily member or organ as specified under current law, the employer shall be liable only for the degree of disability which would have resulted from the latter injury if there had been no preexisting 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 applies to injuries on or after the effective date of the bill.
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§85.64
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This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2023 Relating to preexisting military service-related disabilities covered by the second injury…89th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
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