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A-14508,A-14803 1 (1978-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachje0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 205A8 525 -14508 I A-14803 -he Honorable Harrison A. Williams, Jr. chairman, Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This refers to your request for our views on S. 3060, 95th Congress, a bill which, if enacted, would be cited as the National Workers' Compensation Standards Act of 1978 .11 , S. 3060 creates a series of Federal minimum standards for the States' workers' compensation programs, which incor- porates 17 of the 19 essential recommendations of the 1972 National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws plus certain other standards which are consistent with the National Commission's report. Under S. 3060, if a State law is not certified by the Secretary of Labor as meeting the Federal standards, claims must still be filed and adjudicated in the State. The claimant, however, can seek Federal enforcement of his or her claim after it becomes clear that he or she will not be award- ed compensation within the State system, if such compensation would be payable under required Federal standards. To clarify the bill, the Committee may wish to add the following two definitions, similar to those that were contained in S. 2008, 93d Congress, to section 3 of the bill-- (1) the term injury means (a) any harmful change in the human organism, if work related factors were a substantial causative factor, whether or not the result of an accident, and includes any disease, and (b) any damage to or loss of a prosthetic appliance; and (2) the term State means the several States of the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Guam, and the Trust Territory of' the Pacific Islands, but does not include the District of Columbia. HP8-BILL-12 .....................

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