HB 559 Summary

• Extends workers' compensation coverage to peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers diagnosed with psychiatric conditions arising solely from employment, without requiring an accompanying physical injury

• Adds a new category of compensable psychiatric injury for these workers when the condition is diagnosed as arising out of employment duties

• Limits compensation payments for psychiatric injuries to one year from when payments commence, after which entitlements cease

• Establishes a five-year mandatory prison sentence for offenses involving injury to peace officers, firefighters, or emergency medical workers

• Repeals existing restrictions on psychiatric injury coverage and updates related criminal statutes and workers' compensation definitions