Bill Text: PA HB2386 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reenacted and amended June 21, 1939 (P.L.520, No.281), further providing for schedule of compensation.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-31 - Referred to LABOR RELATIONS [HB2386 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2386-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3479
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2386 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY SABATINA, BARBIN, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, P. COSTA, DERMODY, DONATUCCI, EACHUS, GERBER, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, W. KELLER, KIRKLAND, LONGIETTI, MAHONEY, MATZIE, McGEEHAN, MURPHY, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PETRARCA, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, YOUNGBLOOD AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 31, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, MARCH 31, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), entitled, as
reenacted and amended, "An act defining the liability of an
employer to pay damages for injuries received by an employe
in the course of employment; establishing an elective
schedule of compensation; providing procedure for the
determination of liability and compensation thereunder; and
prescribing penalties," further providing for schedule of
compensation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 306(c)(22) of the act of June 2, 1915
(P.L.736, No.338), known as the Workers' Compensation Act,
reenacted and amended June 21, 1939 (P.L.520, No.281) and
amended March 29, 1972 (P.L.159, No.61), is amended to read:
Section 306. The following schedule of compensation is
hereby established:
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(c) For all disability resulting from permanent injuries of
the following classes, the compensation shall be exclusively as
follows:
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(22) For serious and permanent disfigurement of [the head,
neck or face] exposed areas of the body, of such a character as
to produce an unsightly appearance, and such as is not usually
incident to the employment, sixty-six and two-thirds per centum
of wages not to exceed [two hundred seventy-five weeks] four
hundred weeks. Disfigurement benefits paid to the injured worker
shall be made separate and apart from total or partial
disability. A claimant is not precluded from collecting both
total or partial disability benefits and a disfigurement benefit
simultaneously.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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