Bill Title: Provides that the weekly benefit which the disabled employee is entitled to receive for disability commencing: on or after January first, two thousand twenty-six shall be fifty percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand twenty-seven shall be fifty-five percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed fifty-five percent of the state average weekly wage; on or after January first, two thousand twenty-eight shall be sixty percent of the employee's weekly average wage but shall not exceed sixty percent of the state average weekly wage; and on or after January first of each succeeding year, shall be sixty-seven percent of the employee's average weekly wage but shall not exceed sixty-seven percent of the state average weekly wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00921 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Jeremy Cooney [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-056	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Nathalia Fernandez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-034	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Andrew Gounardes [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jessica Scarcella-Spanton [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Lea Webb [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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