WA People
BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 2283: Workers' comp/hearing loss

Concerning hearing loss claims.

Summary

  • Requires industrial insurance claims for hearing loss due to occupational noise exposure to be filed either within two years of a specified notice from a physician or two years after the worker has retired, whichever is earlier.
  • Establishes the permanent partial disability (PPD) award for hearing loss due to occupational noise exposure at 75 percent of the monetary value in the PPD schedule for hearing loss disability.
  • Requires the Department of Labor and Industries to assess new hearing device technologies and make the new technology available as deemed appropriate.

From the House Bill Analysis (HB 2283), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
  1. IntroducedJun 3, 2003
  2. Out of committeeJun 11, 2003
  3. Passed Housestopped here
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Steve Conway (D-29)
Introduced
June 3, 2003 in the House
Last action
January 14, 2004
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to hearing loss due to occupational noise exposure, but only with respect to requiring claim filing within two years after retirement, requiring consideration of emerging hearing device technologies, and establishing permanent partial disability compensation at seventy-five percent of the monetary value of such disability;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Steve Conway (D-29)

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. House Rules "X" file.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. Minority; do not pass.
  6. CL - Executive action taken by committee.
  7. CL - Majority; do pass.
  8. First reading, referred to Commerce & Labor.

HB 2283 in other sessions

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