Workers Compensation Legislation - Minnesota

HF 3566 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted. Section 1: Employee language is modified. Section 2: Employments excluded language is modified. Section 3: Temporary total disability language is modified. Section 4: Administrators language is modified. Section 5: Retraining; compensation language is modified. Section 6: Complementary and alternative health care providers language is added. Section 7: Relative value fee schedule language is modified. Section 8: Limitation of liability language is modified. Section 9: Requirements language is modified. Section 10: Uninsured and self-insured employers; special compensation fund language is modified. Section 11: Insolvent insurer language is modified. Section 12: Failure to file required report, penalty language [...]

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Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 - PROGRAM INTEGRITY Making program integrity improvements and expanding certain duties of the department of human services; modifying the subpoena authority; authorizing the department of labor and industry to allow the department of human services and county agencies direct access and data matching on workers compensation claims information; modifying public assistance overpayments and declarations ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA FAMILY INVESTMENT PROGRAM Expanding Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) income exclusions to include cash payments to individuals enrolled for full time services as a volunteer under AmeriCorps programs; modifying referral information requirements for diversionary work program (DWP) employment services ARTICLE 3 - CHILD CARE Expanding certain private data disclosure requirements on individuals to include [...]

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Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for remediation, business and community and workforce development, unemployment insurance and state funded administration, to the commissioner of commerce for workers compensation, financial examinations, the petroleum tank release cleanup board, administrative services, market assurance, energy and telecommunications, renewable development grants and renewable energy research, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the economic development and housing challenge, housing trust fund, rental assistance for the mentally ill, family homeless prevention, home ownership assistance and affordable rental investment funds, housing rehabilitation and accessibility, home ownership education, counseling and training and capacity building grants,[...]

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Modifying data practices provisions in the department of labor and industry; modifying rehabilitative data collection and maintenance requirements; eliminating the requirement for the hearings of the workers compensation division to be open to the public; defining certain terms for department data use purposes; modifying certain disclosure prohibitions; classifying certain workers compensation data, providing a general standard for workers compensation data, defining certain terms, classifying certain employment and insurance data as public, providing for certain file and investigative and enforcement data; classifying dispute resolution and investigative and enforcement data and certain other department data as public; eliminating the requirement for all the proceedings of the workers compensation court of appeals to be public; modifying certain medical data access requirements; modifying certain data sharing requirements [...]

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