PUBLIC EMPLOYEE DISABILITY
Summary
Amends the Public Employee Disability Act. Provides that, whenever an eligible employee suffers any injury or illness in the line of duty (rather than suffers any injury in the line of duty) which causes that employee to be unable to perform the employee's duties, the employee shall continue to be paid by the employing public entity on the same gross pay basis, inclusive of all pensionable salary, as the employee was paid before the injury (rather than paid by the employing public entity on the same basis as he was paid before the injury), with no deduction from and with continued accrual of any sick leave credits (rather than with no deduction from his sick leave credits) and specified other compensation, with other requirements. Makes technical changes.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2026
Committee Review
May 2026
House Passage
May 2026
Senate Passage
May 2026
Signed into Law
Jul 2026
Introduced Apr 21, 2026
Signed Jul 24, 2026
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MINOR
The bill text was updated from its 'Engrossed' version to the final 'Enrolled' version ready for signing. The substantive content of the law regarding employee injury compensation remains unchanged, as the modifications are purely technical formatting corrections to the page headers and line spacing.
TECHNICAL
Page header footers were updated to reflect the bill's final 'Enrolled' status instead of 'Engrossed', and minor whitespace inconsistencies in the text were corrected.
Floor votes · Senate May 20, 2026 · House Apr 16, 2026
How they voted
54–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 58
May 20, 2026
D
Democratic39
94% Yea
R
Republican19
89% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
52
Key actions
9
Committee
10
Amendments
4
Jul 24, 2026
Signed into law
Governor Approved
lower
May 20, 2026
Lower · Passed
Passed Both Houses
lower
May 20, 2026
Upper · Passed
Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-001
upper
May 6, 2026
Upper · Passed
Do Pass Labor; 018-000-000
upper
Apr 28, 2026
Committee
Assigned to Labor
upper
Apr 21, 2026
Committee
Referred to Assignments
upper
Apr 21, 2026
Introduced
Arrive in Senate
upper
Apr 16, 2026
Lower · Passed
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 081-030-000
lower
Apr 16, 2026
Lower · Passed
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted
lower
Apr 16, 2026
Lower · Passed
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Personnel & Pensions Committee; 008-004-000
lower
Apr 8, 2026
Lower · Passed
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Personnel & Pensions Committee
lower
Apr 8, 2026
Committee
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
lower
Apr 8, 2026
Introduced
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr.
lower
Feb 26, 2026
Amended
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Tabled
lower
Feb 26, 2026
Lower · Passed
Do Pass / Short Debate Personnel & Pensions Committee; 007-004-000
lower
Feb 25, 2026
Committee
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
lower
Feb 25, 2026
Introduced
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Michael J. Kelly
lower
Feb 17, 2026
Committee
Assigned to Personnel & Pensions Committee
lower
Jan 20, 2026
Committee
Referred to Rules Committee
lower
2 primary · 18 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Marcus Evans
DDemocratic
P
Meg Loughran Cappel
DDemocratic
Co
Carol Ammons
DDemocratic
Co
Celina Villanueva
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher Belt
DDemocratic
Co
Dave Koehler
DDemocratic
Co
Doris Turner
DDemocratic
Co
Emil Jones
DDemocratic
Co
Javier Cervantes
DDemocratic
Co
Karina Villa
DDemocratic
Co
Kimberly Lightford
DDemocratic
Co
Linda Holmes
DDemocratic
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