Correctional officers; Workers' Compensation Commission to study occupational disease presumptions.

HJR 683 Correctional officers; Workers' Compensation Commission to study occupational disease presumptions

Virginia 2013 Regular Session

Correctional officers; Workers' Compensation Commission to study occupational disease presumptions.
HJR-683


About HJR-683

Study; Workers' Compensation Commission to study expanding occupational disease presumptions to include correctional officers; report. Requests the Workers' Compensation Commission to study the impact of providing correctional officers the benefits of the rebuttable presumptions that currently provide that hypertension, heart disease, and certain infectious diseases causing the death of, or a health condition or impairment that results in the total or partial disability of, certain public safety employees are occupational diseases suffered in the line of duty that are covered by the Workers' Compensation Act.

  

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Prefiled 01/09/2013

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