HB3554 Summary

• Amends the Workers' Compensation Act to require deduction of prior permanency awards or settlements from subsequent injury awards when an employee sustains multiple work-related injuries.

• Requires conversion of shoulder injury awards or settlements received between 2012 and the effective date of this Act to the equivalent weeks for an arm injury, with the credit applied against arm awards rather than shoulder awards.

• Changes the prior injury offset provision to explicitly include all permanency awards or settlements, not just losses from amputation or partial amputation of body members.

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.