08RS HB597

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HB 597/LM (BR 1453) - M. Marzian

AN ACT relating to workers' compensation rebuttable presumptions.
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to amend the definition of "injury" to provide a rebuttable presumption of injury for an emergency medical technician, law enforcement officer, corrections worker, firefighter, police officer, or health-care worker who contracts a communicable disease resulting from exposure to bodily fluids and tissue.

Feb 20-introduced in House
Feb 25-to Labor & Industry (H)

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