Bill Text: CT HB05875 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Clarifying The Mechanism By Which Workers' Compensation Benefits Are Paid Upon An Employee's Death.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-14 - Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations [HB05875 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB05875-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 5875
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4720
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Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CLARIFYING THE MECHANISM BY WHICH WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFITS ARE PAID UPON AN EMPLOYEE'S DEATH.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 31-308 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

(d) Any award or agreement for compensation made pursuant to this section shall be paid to the employee, or in the event of the employee's death, whether or not a formal award has been made prior to the death, to [his] the employee's surviving spouse or, if [he] the employee has no surviving spouse, to [his] the employee's dependents in equal shares or, if [he] the employee has no surviving spouse or dependents, to [his] the employee's children, in equal shares, regardless of their age or, if the employee has no surviving spouse or dependents or children, to the employee's estate.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2015	31-308(d)

LAB

Joint Favorable