SB923: Bill Text

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

2023 Senate BILL 923

January 19, 2024 - Introduced by Senators Nass and Cabral-Guevara, cosponsored by Representatives Sortwell, Goeben, Rozar, Allen, Behnke, Bodden, Brandtjen, Brooks, Callahan, Edming, Magnafici, Maxey, Michalski, Moses, Murphy, O'Connor, Rettinger, Sapik, Schraa and Schutt. Referred to Committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs.

SB923,1,2 An Act to create 102.03 (7) of the statutes; relating to: employer liability under worker's compensation for mandatory or coerced vaccines.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides that, for the purposes of worker's compensation, an injury caused to an employee by a vaccine that the employee was required by or coerced by his or her employer to receive is presumed to be caused by the individual's employment.

The presumption requires a diagnosis and may be rebutted by specific evidence that the injury was caused outside of employment.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB923,1 Section 1 . 102.03 (7) of the statutes is created to read:

SB923,1,7 102.03 (7) (a) For the purposes of benefits under this chapter, where an injury to an employee is found to be caused by a vaccine that the employee was required by or coerced by his or her employer to receive, the injury is presumed to be caused by the individual's employment.

SB923,2,2 (b) An injury claimed under par. (a) must be accompanied by a specific diagnosis by a physician.

SB923,2,4 (c) An injury claimed under par. (a) may be rebutted by specific evidence that the injury was not caused by receiving the vaccine.

SB923,2,5 (End)