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This bill amends Tennessee law related to workers' compensation, primarily by authorizing the chief administrative officer of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation (part of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development) to use funds from the "subsequent injury and vocational recovery fund" for various purposes, including the implementation and maintenance of a computer system for the bureau, costs associated with legal counsel defending claims against this fund, and providing vocational recovery assistance to eligible employees. The bill also makes several technical changes to legal terminology within the workers' compensation statutes, such as replacing "petition" with "file a motion with" and "request for hearing" with "petition for benefit determination," and adjusts language regarding impairment ratings to allow for combined ratings from multiple physicians.

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https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1861&ga=114