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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1920 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6277 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1920 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. QUINN, 82nd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT EXPANDING THE TIMELINE FOR PERMANENT PARTIAL | |
| 19 | 19 | DISABILITY BENEFITS . | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That section 31-308a of the general statutes be amended to change the 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | amount of time a person may receive permanent partial disability 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | benefits from the current "lesser of (1) the duration of the employee's 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | permanent partial disability benefits, or (2) five hundred twenty weeks" 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | to "up to the lesser of (1) five times the duration of the employee's 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | permanent partial disability benefits, or (2) seven hundred eighty 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | weeks. The commissioner shall determine whether the employee's 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | disability is substantial enough to allow for the award of these benefits 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | past the original duration of the employee's permanent partial disability 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | benefits." 10 | |
| 33 | 33 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 34 | 34 | To expand the permanent partial disability benefits timeline. |