Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Insurance Committee on January 31, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.
2023 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2393
Workers' compensation; increase maximum total recovery, remove permanent total disability compensation cap.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 71-3-13, 71-3-17, 71-3-21 AND 71-3-25, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM TOTAL COMPENSATION THAT AN EMPLOYEE MAY RECOVER UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW, AND TO PROVIDE THAT COMPENSATION FOR PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY SHALL BE PAID TO THE EMPLOYEE UNTIL HIS DEATH; TO REQUIRE EMPLOYERS TO MAKE ALL REASONABLE EFFORTS TO PROTECT EMPLOYEES FROM PREVENTABLE HAZARDS; TO PROHIBIT EMPLOYERS FROM FIRING, SUSPENDING OR RETALIATING AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE WHO FILES A WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 16 to January 31, 2023, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 16 to Jan 31 · stopped15 days
InsuranceJan 16 to Jan 31 · stopped15 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.