SB661 SFAT Roberts #1 2-22

Lazell  7879

Senator Roberts moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for Senate Bill 661—A Bill to amend and reenact §23-5A-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the clarification of preferential recall rights for employees sustaining a compensable injury; providing for employee to make written demand for reinstatement and mailing demand to the employer's principal office; removing provision for restoring employee to a comparable position; providing for a preferential recall time period of 90 days from the date the employee is released to return to regular employment; providing that it is the obligation of the employee to continually seek employment during the employee's preferential recall time period; and removing provision relating to preferential right of recall for a one-year period.

Adopted

Rejected