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