NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1305

HOUSE BILL 1335

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT BYSSINOSIS, KNOWN AS "BROWN LUNG DISEASE", SHALL BE DEEMED AN OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE WITHIN THE MEANING OF G.S. 97-53(13) FOR PURPOSES OF WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION CLAIMS REGARDLESS OF THE DATE THE DISEASE ORIGINATED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Claims for "brown lung disease", which can be proved under G.S. 97‑53(13) shall be compensable regardless of the employee's date of last injurious exposure.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

Sec. 3.  This act will expire April 30, 1981; however, this provision does not apply to any claims filed prior to April 30, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.