WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to penalties and attorney fees for nonpayment, discontinuance of payment, or failure to consent for a medical treatment for workers' compensation claims, controversion of benefits, and preliminary determination hearings

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Actions Timeline

1. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.

   4/13/2026Senate

2. Called from the calendar.

   4/8/2026House

3. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 71, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

   4/8/2026House

4. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

   4/8/2026Senate

5. Called from the calendar.

   4/7/2026House

6. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

   4/7/2026House

7. Notice given.

   4/7/2026House

8. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.

   4/7/2026House

9. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

   4/1/2026House

10. Notice given.

    4/1/2026House

11. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/07/2026.

    4/1/2026House

12. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/01/2026.

    3/31/2026House

13. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    3/30/2026House

14. Reported with amendments (8-3).

    3/26/2026House

15. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    3/9/2026House

16. Prefiled.

    2/27/2026House

17. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    2/27/2026House

18. First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

    2/27/2026House

Bill Text

• Engrossed

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• Introduced

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