2020 House Bill 6041

Create legal presumption that employees caught coronavirus at work

Introduced in the House

Aug. 6, 2020

Introduced by Rep. Brian Elder (D-96)

To establish a legal presumption that for purposes of collecting unemployment insurance benefits an individual deemed an “essential worker” by coronavirus epidemic executive orders who catches the disease caught it at work.

Referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security