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The bill status is noted as passed by the legislature, but no effective date is provided in the metadata or summary text.
HB1355: Updates to Georgia Workers' Compensation Rules
This bill updates laws regarding experience modification factors, procedures for refusing suitable employment, and increases certain maximum benefit amounts.
What This Bill Does
- Updates the law on experience modification factors used in workers' compensation.
- Changes procedures related to a worker's refusal of suitable employment.
- Increases weekly benefits for total disability cases up to the maximum weekly wage.
- Increases weekly benefits for temporary partial disability claims up to the maximum weekly wage.
- Increases the maximum amounts available for certain death benefits.
Who It Names or Affects
- Workers covered by Georgia workers' compensation laws
- Employers subject to these laws
Limits and Unknowns
- The official summary does not list the specific dollar amounts for the new benefit increases.
- The exact date when these changes take effect is not provided in the source material.