GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1036

Short Title:  Replacement Limbs Compensable.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Luebke; Braswell, Cunningham, Fitch, Hackney, Kuczmarski, Lemmond, Michaux, and B. Miller.
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Referred to:  Judiciary I.
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCLUDE REPLACEMENT MEMBERS IN THE DEFINITION OF MEDICAL COMPENSATION THAT IS COMPENSABLE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 97-2(19) reads as rewritten:
"(19)	Medical compensation. –  The term 'medical compensation' means medical, surgical, hospital, nursing, and rehabilitative services, and medicines, sick travel, and other treatment, including medical and surgical supplies, as may reasonably be required to effect a cure or give relief and for such additional time as, in the judgment of the Commission, will tend to lessen the period of disability; and any original or replacement artificial members as may reasonably be necessary at the end of the healing period."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to all claims that have not reached final judgment on or before that date.