HB44 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Matt Simpson Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Workers' compensation, occupational disease further defined, includes mental disease or disorder for emergency responders, Sec. 25-5-110 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, when an employer and employee are subject to the workers' compensation laws, an employee who is disabled or killed as a result of an occupational disease is entitled to compensation.

Also under existing law, an occupational disease is not considered to include a mental disease or disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder, unless a physical injury accompanies the mental disease or disorder.

This bill would provide that for purposes of workers' compensation benefits paid to an emergency responder, the term occupational disease includes a mental disease or disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder, that arises out of and in the course of employment, without regard to whether there was an accompanying physical injury.

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Subjects

Workers' Compensation