H.F. No. 70 Summary

• Adopts 2020 Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations affecting self-insurer security deposits, funding requirements, and financial reporting standards effective January 1, 2021.

• Establishes COVID-19 occupational disease presumption for specified first responders and health care workers who contract COVID-19 during employment, with detailed eligibility criteria and evidentiary requirements.

• Expands mental impairment and infectious disease presumptions for emergency personnel including police officers, firefighters, paramedics, correctional officers, and nurses, with provisions allowing employers to rebut presumptions with substantial factors.

• Creates CAMPUS electronic filing system for workers' compensation claims requiring accounts for insurers, employers, employees, and attorneys; establishes penalties for failure to create and maintain required accounts.

• Modifies payment to employee estates upon death to $60,000 and streamlines actuarial opinion requirements by removing present value discounting in certain liability calculations.