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| 2 | 2 | | MIM:cdc |
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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 SENATE BILL 923 |
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| 5 | 5 | | January 19, 2024 - Introduced by Senators N ASS and CABRAL-GUEVARA, |
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| 6 | 6 | | cosponsored by Representatives SORTWELL, GOEBEN, ROZAR, ALLEN, BEHNKE, |
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| 7 | 7 | | BODDEN, BRANDTJEN, BROOKS, CALLAHAN, EDMING, MAGNAFICI, MAXEY, |
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| 8 | 8 | | MICHALSKI, MOSES, MURPHY, O'CONNOR, RETTINGER, SAPIK, SCHRAA and SCHUTT. |
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| 9 | 9 | | Referred to Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military |
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| 10 | 10 | | Affairs. |
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| 11 | 11 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 12 | 12 | | AN ACT to create 102.03 (7) of the statutes; relating to: employer liability under |
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| 13 | 13 | | worker's compensation for mandatory or coerced vaccines. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 15 | 15 | | This bill provides that, for the purposes of worker's compensation, an injury |
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| 16 | 16 | | caused to an employee by a vaccine that the employee was required by or coerced by |
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| 17 | 17 | | his or her employer to receive is presumed to be caused by the individual's |
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| 18 | 18 | | employment. |
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| 19 | 19 | | The presumption requires a diagnosis and may be rebutted by specific evidence |
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| 20 | 20 | | that the injury was caused outside of employment. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 22 | 22 | | enact as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. 102.03 (7) of the statutes is created to read: |
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| 24 | 24 | | 102.03 (7) (a) For the purposes of benefits under this chapter, where an injury |
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| 25 | 25 | | to an employee is found to be caused by a vaccine that the employee was required by |
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| 26 | 26 | | or coerced by his or her employer to receive, the injury is presumed to be caused by |
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| 27 | 27 | | the individual's employment. |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 923 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (b) An injury claimed under par. (a) must be accompanied by a specific |
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| 38 | 38 | | diagnosis by a physician. |
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| 39 | 39 | | (c) An injury claimed under par. (a) may be rebutted by specific evidence that |
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| 40 | 40 | | the injury was not caused by receiving the vaccine. |
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