HB2076

Report Title:

Work Comp; TPD

 

Description:

Deems treatment appointments to be periods of temporary partial disability.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2076
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 386-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) Temporary partial disability. Where a work injury causes partial disability, not determined to be permanent, which diminishes the employee's capacity for work, the employer, beginning with the first day of the disability and during the continuance thereof, shall pay the injured employee weekly benefits equal to sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the difference between the employee's average weekly wages before the injury and the employee's weekly earnings thereafter, subject to the schedule for the maximum and minimum weekly benefit rates prescribed in section 386-31.

For the purposes of this subsection, appointments for the treatment of an industrial injury prescribed by a physician shall be deemed to constitute a period of temporary partial disability and paid for accordingly."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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