Bill Text: HI HB390 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Workers' Compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-09 - Act 201, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1303). [HB390 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-HB390-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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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. Act
172, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, is amended by amending section 4 to read as
follows:
"SECTION
4. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval[; provided that on June 30, 2019, this Act shall be repealed and
section 386-79, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in
which it read on the day before the effective date of this Act]."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Workers' Compensation; Medical Examination; Recording Devices; Chaperone
Description:
Makes permanent Act 172, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, which: (1) grants employees the right to have a chaperone present during a medical examination relating to a workers' compensation work injury and, with the approval of the examining physician or surgeon, to record the examination; and (2) provides that if an employee or employee's chaperone obstructs the medical examination, the employee's right to worker's compensation shall be suspended until the refusal or obstruction ceases. (HB390 HD1)
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