HB 183 — An Act amending the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), known as the Workers' Compensation Act, in liability and compensation, further providing for schedule of compensation.

PRINTER'S NO.   130

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 183
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY DAWKINS, BRENNAN, HARKINS, WAXMAN, PIELLI,
        ISAACSON, McNEILL, GIRAL, FREEMAN, SANCHEZ, KHAN, OTTEN,
        MALAGARI, KENYATTA, DONAHUE, NEILSON, HILL-EVANS, HOWARD,
        CIRESI, HOHENSTEIN, SCHLOSSBERG, DALEY AND GREEN,
        JANUARY 16, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 16, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), entitled "An
 2      act defining the liability of an employer to pay damages for
 3      injuries received by an employe in the course of employment;
 4      establishing an elective schedule of compensation; providing
 5      procedure for the determination of liability and compensation
 6      thereunder; and prescribing penalties," in liability and
 7      compensation, further providing for schedule of compensation.
 8      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 9   hereby enacts as follows:
10      Section 1.    Section 306(c)(22) of the act of June 2, 1915
11   (P.L.736, No.338), known as the Workers' Compensation Act, is
12   amended to read:
13      Section 306.    The following schedule of compensation is
14   hereby established:
15      * * *
16      (c)     For all disability resulting from permanent injuries of
17   the following classes, the compensation shall be exclusively as
18   follows:
19      * * *
 1      (22)    For serious and permanent disfigurement of [the head,
 2   neck or face] the body, of such a character as to produce an
 3   unsightly appearance, and such as is not usually incident to the
 4   employment, sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of wages not to
 5   exceed [two hundred seventy-five weeks.] four hundred weeks.
 6   Disfigurement benefits paid to the injured worker shall be made
 7   separate and apart from total or partial disability. A claimant
 8   is not precluded from collecting both total or partial
 9   disability benefits and a disfigurement benefit simultaneously.
10      * * *
11      Section 2.   The amendment of section 306(c)(22) of the act
12   shall apply to injuries sustained on or after the effective date
13   of this section.
14      Section 3.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




20250HB0183PN0130                   - 2 -