Bill Text: CT HB06872 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 6872 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Reimbursement Of Wages And Deposition Appearances.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-19 - Senate Calendar Number 546 [HB06872 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB06872-Comm_Sub.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 6872*
*January Session, 2015*		LCO No. 3635
		_____HB06872LAB___031715____
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)

AN ACT CONCERNING REIMBURSEMENT OF WAGES AND DEPOSITION APPEARANCES.

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

Section 1. Section 31-312 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

(a) An employee receiving medical attention under the provisions of this chapter and required to be absent from work for medical treatment, examination, laboratory tests, x-rays or other diagnostic procedures, and not otherwise receiving or eligible to receive weekly compensation, shall be compensated for the time lost from the job for required medical treatment and tests at the rate of such employee's average earnings, but not less than at the minimum wage established by law, provided the amount payable in any one week shall not exceed the employee's weekly compensation rate. Time lost from the job shall include necessary travel time from the plant to the place of treatment, the time for the treatment and any other time that is necessary for the treatment, examination or laboratory test. The employer shall furnish or pay for the transportation of the employee by ambulance or taxi where transportation is medically required from the point of departure for treatment and return. In all other cases, the employer shall furnish the employee transportation or reimbursement for the cost of transportation actually used, at a rate equal to the federal mileage reimbursement rate for use of a privately owned automobile set forth in 41 CFR Part 301-10.303, as from time to time amended, for a private motor vehicle or the cost incurred for public transportation, from the employee's point of departure, whether from the employee's home or place of employment, and return, if the employee is required to travel beyond a one-fare limit on an available common carrier from the point of departure to the place of treatment, examination or laboratory test. Where the medical attention or treatment is provided at a time other than during the employee's regular working hours and the employee is not otherwise receiving or eligible to receive weekly compensation, the employee shall be compensated for the time involved for the medical treatment as though it were time lost from the job at the rate of the employee's average hourly earnings and shall be paid for the cost of necessary transportation as provided in this subsection.

(b) When a claimant is given notice to appear at a deposition, conference or an informal hearing before a commissioner and does appear, [he] the claimant shall be entitled to reimbursement of wages lost by reason of the appearance if he or she is not then receiving compensation for the appearance as provided in this subsection. When liability or extent of disability is contested by formal hearing before the commissioner, the claimant shall be entitled, if he or she prevails on final judgment, to payment for services rendered him or her by a competent physician or surgeon for examination, x-ray, medical tests and testimony in connection with the claim, the commissioner to determine the reasonableness of the charges, and [he] the claimant shall be entitled to receive payment of one-fifth of the weekly compensation, as computed in accordance with section 31-310, for each day, or part thereof, that he or she is in attendance at the formal hearing if [he] the claimant is not then receiving compensation.

(c) No employer shall require any person receiving medical attention under the provisions of this chapter to receive such medical attention outside the person's regular work hours if such work hours overlap or coincide with the office hours of the treating physician.