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Last action · February 4, 2025

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Introduced January 9, 2025

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2025 Regular Session

HB165

AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims.

Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.

Labor and Industry Workers' Compensation Coal

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This bill would change the rules for coal workers who have been diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis, a lung disease caused by breathing coal dust. Currently, those workers must have two additional years of continuous exposure to the hazard in Kentucky before they can reopen a previous workers' compensation claim. This bill would remove that requirement. Who it may affect: coal miners and other workers previously diagnosed with an occupational lung disease related to coal dust exposure.

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