A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the schedule of injuries for awards of workers' compensation for injuries affecting specific parts of the body to add a maximum award for serious INJURies TO THE BRAIN, HEART, OR REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 97‑31 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(23a)	In case of serious injury to the brain, heart, or reproductive organs for which no compensation is payable under any other subdivision of this section, the Industrial Commission shall award proper and equitable compensation not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to all agreements approved by the North Carolina Industrial Commission under the Workers' Compensation Act, Article 1 of Chapter 97 of the General Statutes, that are approved on or after that date; all orders or decisions of the North Carolina Industrial Commission under the Workers' Compensation Act that are entered on or after that date; and all awards of the North Carolina Industrial Commission unappealed from or affirmed upon appeal under the Workers' Compensation Act that are awarded on or after that date.