2026 Regular Session
HB456
Provides relative to claims for benefits under workers' compensation
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
Likes
No public reasoning provided.
Dislikes
This bill raises the burden on injured workers to file claims while expanding employers’ ability to initiate disputes against them.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 6, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 456 FINAL PASSAGE (#902)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
67 yea–30 nay · 8 absent
May 25, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 456 FINAL PASSAGE (#1227)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
20 yea–17 nay · 2 absent
Committee referrals
May 7, 2026 · Senate
Labor & Industrial Relations
February 26, 2026 · House
Labor and Industrial Relations
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 08/01/2026.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 648.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 20 yeas and 17 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 67, nays 30. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (7-6).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
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House Prefiled.