House Passes Another Bill to Ban Benefits for Undocumented Workers

The state House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would prevent undocumented workers from receiving workers’ compensation benefits. The vote on House Bill 380 was largely along party lines, with no Republicans in opposition and two Democrats — Reps. Bill Patmon and John Barnes, both from Cleveland — voting to support the measure. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill Seitz, R-Cincinnati, states that an undocumented worker “assumes the risk of incurring such injury or contracting an occupational disease, and that assumption is a complete bar to ...