Enacts the COVID-19 injured workers' protection act
Summary
Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19; and where the applicable head of the member's retirement system or such system's medical board determines COVID-19 to have been a significant contributing factor in the member's death.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2020
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced May 21, 2020
Last action May 21, 2020
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Committee
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May 21, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
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