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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 431
BY SENATOR MURRAY
WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Provides prospective application only of new medical
treatment schedule. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 23:1203.1(A)(5) and (O), relative to workers' compensation; to2
provide for the medical treatment schedule; to provide for applicability; to provide3
for definitions; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 23:1203.1(A)(5) and (O) are hereby amended and reenacted to read6
as follows: 7
ยง1203.1. Medical treatment schedule8
A. For use in this Section, the following terms shall have the following9
meanings, unless clearly indicated otherwise by the context:10
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(5) "Injury" and "personal injuries", "mental injury caused by mental12
stress", and "mental injury caused by physical injury" are defined as set forth13
in R.S. 23:1021(8).14
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O. The medical treatment schedule shall not apply to workplace injuries16
as defined in R.S. 23:1021(8) which occurred on or before July 13, 2011.17 SB NO. 431
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Carla S. Roberts.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides that the application of the medical treatment schedule does not apply
to workplace injuries that occurred on or before July 13, 2011.
Proposed law incorporates definitions of injury and related terms already defined in present
law (R.S. 23:1021(8)).
Effective August 1, 2012
(Amends R.S. 23:1203.1(A)(5) and (O))