Advisory Council Reviewing Presumption Bill at Thursday Meeting

The Tennessee Advisory Council on Workers’ Compensation will discuss on Thursday a legislative proposal to create a rebuttable presumption that COVID-19 is compensable for emergency rescue workers. House Bill 553, by Rep. Sam Whitson, R-Franklin, and identical companion measure SB 995, by Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, would add a virus or disease declared a pandemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization and for which the governor has declared a state of emergency to the statutory list of infectious diseases that are presumed to be comp...