AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.

This bill would change Kentucky's workers' compensation law to adjust how the presence of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (the active compound in cannabis) in a worker's blood is treated when determining the cause of a workplace injury. Currently, having certain substances in the blood can be used to presume an injury was the worker's own fault, and this bill would exclude certain THC levels from that presumption. This means that at those specified levels, a positive THC result alone could not automatically be used to deny a worker's compensation claim. Who it may affect: workers who file workers' compensation claims and their employers.

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