Pennsylvania SB801 amends the Workers' Compensation Act to address occupational diseases with long latency periods.

Pennsylvania SB801 amends the Workers' Compensation Act to modify the time limits for filing claims related to occupational diseases with long latency periods. It removes the requirement for diseases to manifest within three hundred weeks of the last date of exposure, allowing claims to be filed within three years of diagnosis if the disease has a latency period exceeding three hundred weeks. The bill also specifies that death claims must be filed within three hundred weeks of a diagnostic document showing the presence of the occupational disease and within three years of the death date.

Pennsylvania SB801 amends the Workers' Compensation Act to address occupational diseases with long latency periods.

Pennsylvania SB801 amends the Workers' Compensation Act to modify the time limits for filing claims related to occupational diseases with long latency periods. It removes the requirement for diseases to manifest within three hundred weeks of the last date of exposure, allowing claims to be filed within three years of diagnosis if the disease has a latency period exceeding three hundred weeks. The bill also specifies that death claims must be filed within three hundred weeks of a diagnostic document showing the presence of the occupational disease and within three years of the death date.