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H2123 • 2025

An Act relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring

An Act relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring

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Sponsor
Christopher Hendricks
Last action
2025-12-22
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring

An Act relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring By Representative Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring By Representative Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2123) of Christopher Hendricks and Antonio F.
  • D.
  • Cabral relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-12-22 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

  2. 2025-09-08 House

    Reporting date extended to Wednesday, December 3, 2025

  3. 2025-06-12 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/18/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Labor and Workforce Development

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring
By Representative Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2123) of Christopher Hendricks and Antonio F. D. Cabral relative to workers' compensation disfigurement benefits concerning scarring. Labor and Workforce Development.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.2123

Section 36 of chapter 152 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the words

“or hands”, in line 82, and inserting in place thereof the following words:- ,distally to the elbows, or distally to the knees.

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