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Kara Mace, Deputy
Commissioner, Legal Services announced this month that suspension of Government
Code sections 607.002(1) and (2) implemented on March 30, 2020 in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic has been lifted effective December 21, 2022. Section
607.002 relates to reimbursement for disease prevention.
Section 607.002 provides that a public safety employee who is exposed to a
contagious disease is entitled to reimbursement from the employing governmental
agency for reasonable medical expenses incurred in treatment for the prevention
of the disease if (1) the disease is not an ordinary disease of life as that
term is used in the context of a workers’ compensation claim; and (2) the
exposure to the disease occurs during the course of the employment.
Governor Abbott suspended §§607.002 (1) and (2) to ensure that public safety
employees who were likely to have been exposed to COVID-19 while in the course
and scope of their employment were entitled to reimbursement from their
employer for reasonable medical expenses related to such exposure.
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