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S57 • 2025

Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses.

Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses.

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hanig, Adcock, Alexander, Lowe, Mohammed
Last action
2025-02-06
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses.

Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses.

What This Bill Does

  • Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-06 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  2. 2025-02-06 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-02-05 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 57

Short Title: Workers' Comp/Pay for Hearing Aids & Glasses. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Hanig (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
February 6, 2025
*S57-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT AMENDING THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT DEFINITION OF "INJURY 2
AND PERSONAL INJURY" REGARDING BREAKAGE OR DAMAGE TO 3
EYEGLASSES AND HEARING AIDS. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 97-2(6) reads as rewritten: 6
"(6) Injury. – "Injury and personal injury" shall mean only injury by accident 7
arising out of and in the course of the employment, and shall not include a 8
disease in any form, except where it results naturally and unavoidably from 9
the accident. With respect to back injuries, however, where injury to the back 10
arises out of and in the course of the employment and is the direct result of a 11
specific traumatic incident of the work assigned, "injury by accident" shall be 12
construed to include any disabl ing physical injury to the back arising out of 13
and causally related to such incident. Injury shall include breakage or damage 14
to eyeglasses, hearing aids, dentures, or other prosthetic devices which 15
function as part of the body; provided, however, that eye glasses and hearing 16
aids will not be replaced, repaired, or otherwise compensated for unless injury 17
to them is incidental to a compensable injury.body." 18
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to claims for 19
workers' compensation benefits arising prior to, on, or after that date. 20