2002 Regular Session

SENATE BILL 589

File Code: Workers' Compensation Prior Year Introduction As: HB 637/01 - ECM
Sponsored By:
Senators Kittleman, Harris, Schrader, and Stoltzfus
Entitled:
Workers' Compensation - Temporary Partial and Temporary Total Disability Compensation - Incarceration

Synopsis:

Providing that an employer is not liable for the payment of temporary partial or temporary total disability compensation under the State's workers' compensation laws in weeks when the covered employee to whom benefits otherwise would be due is incarcerated; prohibiting a covered employee to whom compensation is not paid from claiming compensation for the weeks of incarceration after the employee is released from incarceration; and providing for the application of the Act.

History by Legislative Date

Senate Action
2/1
First Reading Finance
2/5
Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
3/18
Unfavorable Report by Finance
House Action
No Action
Sponsored by:
Senator Robert H. Kittleman, Senator, District 14
Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 9
Senator Sandra Schrader, District 13
Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
PRISONERS -see also- EX-OFFENDERS
WORKERS' COMPENSATION
WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- COL BARG; HOLIDAY; etc
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Labor and Employment
( 9-616 , 9-621 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments: None offered