National Workers Compensation Standards Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Workers' Compensation Standards Act of 1979 - Establishes minimum standards for State workers' compensation laws. Includes among such standards a requirement that monetary benefits for permanent total disability or death, and for temporary total disability lasting more than two years, shall be adjusted at least annually to reflect increases in the statewide average weekly wage and that any State maximum limit on such adjustments shall not be less than six percent in any one year. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake studies of employment-related diseases and to develop and recommend proposals for standards for determining whether particular diseases arise out of and in the course of employment and cause death or disability and for diagnosing such diseases. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to promulgate, modify, or revoke standards for such purposes, by specified rulemaking procedures. Requires that any such promulgated standard be effective as a minimum standard for State workers' compensation laws two years after its final promulgation and govern the determination of compensation due to deaths or disabilities occurring thereaft…