BILL NO | S08396 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A10472
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SPONSOR | RAMOS |
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COSPNSR | CARLUCCI, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, MAY, SAVINO |
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Amd 13-a & 21-a, Work Comp L |
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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. |