WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to an injury producing the permanent total disability of an employee (RE SEE FISC NOTE EX See Note)
HB 556 is a technical amendment bill that makes minor grammatical corrections to the state's workers' compensation laws. Specifically, it removes unnecessary words and adds a missing preposition to improve the clarity of existing text regarding permanent total disability. These changes do not alter the actual benefits or rules for injured employees but serve to refine the language of the statute. The bill directly affects the legal code governing workplace injury claims without introducing new policy requirements.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 1, 2024
Last action May 15, 2024
Floor votes · House May 13, 2024
How they voted
70–24
Passed · 11 other
Total votes 105
May 13, 2024
D
Democratic32
90% Yea
R
Republican73
56% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
2
Committee
3
May 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 70, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 1, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (9-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Brian Glorioso
RRepublican
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