Budget Amendment ID: FY2019-S4-636

EHS 636

VA Benefits

Mr. Fattman, Ms. Gobi and Mr. O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section __ the following new section:-

“SECTION __. Chapter 152 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out section 37A and inserting in place thereof the following:-

Section 37A. Any employee who is a war veteran and disabled as the result of his military or naval service and has been certified as such by the United States Veterans Administration or has an open claim being processed by said administration and who, in the course of and arising out of his employment, receives a personal injury which is aggravated or prolonged by such disability for which he is receiving compensation from said administration, shall receive the compensation provided by this chapter, or said compensation shall be paid to his dependents, if death results from the injury. Such compensation shall be paid by the insurer or self-insurer, who shall be reimbursed, in an amount not to exceed fifty per cent thereof for any period up to one hundred and four weeks and thereafter in an amount not to exceed one hundred per cent, by the state treasurer from the fund created by section sixty-five. In the event that said fund becomes exhausted, the state treasurer shall make such payments from the general fund without appropriation.”