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Subcommittee amends and advances bill defining throat cancer in workers' compensation
Summary
The Compensation and Retirement Subcommittee voted 7-0 to amend and report HB 1933, which sets a code definition for throat cancer under the Workers' Compensation Act and clarifies the change is not retroactive, applying only to diagnoses on or after July 1.
The subcommittee reconsidered and amended House Bill 1933 to insert an enactment clause clarifying that the bill is not retroactive and applies only to cases diagnosed on or after July 1.
A staff member summarized the amendment during the hearing: the bill codifies what qualifies as throat cancer under the Workers' Compensation Act and the line amendment clarifies that the change "is not retroactive and only would apply to cases diagnosed as of July 1st and onward." Committee members moved, seconded and passed the amendment before voting to report the bill as amended.
Following the recorded roll call, HB 1933 as amended passed the subcommittee by a vote of 7 to nothing. No additional fiscal or implementation details were discussed on the record during the amendment debate.
The subcommittee's action changes statutory language going forward; it does not alter claims adjudicated for diagnoses before the stated effective date.
