Bill Text: HI HB1673 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Workers' Compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-14 - Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Matayoshi, Takayama, Todd excused (3). [HB1673 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1673-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 386-21.9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§386-21.9[]] Medical
care, services, and supplies for firefighters and solid waste workers
suffering from cancer. (a) If a claim for leukemia, multiple myeloma,
non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or cancer of the lung, brain, stomach, esophagus,
intestines, rectum, kidney, bladder, prostate, or testes filed by an employee
with five or more years of service as a firefighter or solid waste worker with
five or more years of service with significant regular exposure to trash is
accepted or determined to be compensable, section 386-21 shall remain
applicable; provided that the employer shall be liable for medical care,
services, and supplies for a minimum of one hundred ten per cent, and not to
exceed one hundred fifty per cent of fees prescribed in the Medicare Resource
Based Relative Value Scale applicable to Hawaii as prepared by the United
States Department of Health and Human Services.
(b) For the purposes of this section, "solid waste worker" means an employee of a government facility handling solid waste. "Solid waste worker" includes municipal solid waste employees who work at facilities such as transfer stations and solid waste collectors."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Worker's Compensation; Solid Waste Workers; Cancer
Description:
Requires employers to be liable for medical care, services, and supplies when a worker's compensation claim filed by a solid waste worker suffering from cancer is accepted.
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