All Workers Compensation Legislation - Minnesota
SF3469 - Workers compensation civil remedy for employer willful safety law violation
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Allowing injured employees, legal representatives or heirs a civil remedy for employer safety law willful violations under workers compensation (rt) Comment on Bill SF2209 - Human services program integrity improvements; MFIP and child care assistance provisions modifications
Latest Action: 03/31/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF1339 - Workers compensation injured workers continued health coverage and attorney fees payment requirements
Latest Action: 02/28/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to workers compensation; requiring employers to pay for continued employee medical insurance for injured workers under certain conditions; requiring employers to pay for attorney fees of workers under certain conditions (rt) SF1225 - Workers compensation advisory council membership increase and appointing authorities modification
Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Increasing the membership of the advisory council on workers compensation; changing the appointing authorities for council members; modifying certain duties relating to amendment recommendation procedures and modifying certain meeting requirements (je) SF1226 - Workers compensation payment and retraining provisions modifications
Latest Action: 02/26/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to workers compensation; modifying the compensation schedule for injury producing temporary total disability, temporary partial disability and permanent total disability; modifying certain retraining limits and adjustment of benefits (je) SF0797 - Jobs and economic development appropriations; construction codes and licensing provisions recodification and modification
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text 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,[...] show full description SF0626 - Workers compensation rehabilitation services fees regulation
Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to workers compensation; limiting the maximum hourly rate charged by qualified rehabilitation consultants, requiring annual adjustment and specifying adjustment determination method (rt) Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Withdrawn and re-referred to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight Bill Text Requiring a certain employer of an employee injured while working on a bomb squad to pay the person permanent total disability (me) SF0828 - Safe Patient Handling Act
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance Bill Text 2E "Safe Patient Handling Act"; requiring every licensed health care facility in the state to implement by a certain date a safe patient handling program to eliminate patient manual lifting by nurses (RN) and (LPN) and direct patient care workers, requiring mechanical assistive devices use, requiring safe patient handling program committee formation, specifying further program and committee requirements and duties; providing for facilities with existing programs; authorizing commissioner of labor and industry enforcement; requiring the commissioner to study ways to require workers compensation insurers to recognize compliance in workers compensation premiums for health care and long term care facilities; appropriating money to the commissioner of labor and industry (rt) SF1142 - Labor and industry department data practices provisions modifications
Latest Action: 02/22/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text 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 [...] show full description SF2165 - Workers compensation temporary total disability benefits, retraining and medical services relative value fee schedule provisions modifications; pay for performance advisory group
Latest Action: 03/27/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Relating to workers compensation; modifying the compensation schedule for injury producing temporary total disability; increasing the maximum weekly compensation amount; modifying certain retraining and medical services relative value fee schedule provisions; creating the pay for performance advisory group to study and make recommendations regarding best practice standards and pay for performance standards for medical care designed to achieve cost savings to offset the costs associated with increased benefits; specifying certain membership requirements; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of labor and industry to adopt rules for the performance standards; sunset provision (je) SF1102 - Independent contractor status certification and review requirements
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Requiring employers to certify to the commissioner of labor and industry independent contractor status with regard to employment conditions satisfaction under workers compensation regulation; requiring the commissioners of revenue and labor and industry to annually review independent contractor certifications (rt) SF3300 - University of Minnesota taconite workers lung health study appropriation
Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - HF substituted on General Orders HF3569 Bill Text 2E Appropriating money to the university of Minnesota for a study of workers health including a comprehensive science and evidence based study of lung health of workers associated with the taconite industry (me) SF2039 - Workers compensation advisory council recommendations adoption
Latest Action: 03/23/2007 - Author stricken Rosen Bill Text Relating to workers compensation; increasing the temporary total disability payment and lengthening the time period of payment eligibility; lengthening the time period of eligibility for payment of temporary total or temporary partial compensation; modifying relative value fee schedule conversion factors, authorizing the commissioner of labor and industry to update relative value table; modifying the medical fee review employer limitation of liability, specifying employer liability for treatment, articles and supplies provided by hospitals located within eleven county metropolitan area and outside the metropolitan area, defining metropolitan area to include Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties; permitting department assigned workers compensation identification numbers to be substituted for social security numbers; repealing a workers compensation [...] show full description Latest Action: 02/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing workers compensation coverage for mental injury caused by extraordinary mental stress due to employment (me) SF3135 - Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve Corps created, volunteer health practitioners permitted during an emergency declaration, and volunteer protections provided.
Latest Action: 04/21/2008 - Governor's action Approval 04/17/08 Bill Text Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve Corps created, volunteer health practitioners permitted during an emergency declaration, and volunteer protections provided. HF4220 - Workers' Compensation Advisory Council; distribution of surplus money provided in assigned risk plans.
Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - Referred by Chair to Higher Education and Work Force Development Policy and Finance Division Bill Text Workers' Compensation Advisory Council; distribution of surplus money provided in assigned risk plans. SF3218 - Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted.
Latest Action: 05/05/2008 - Governor's action Approval 04/30/08 Bill Text Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted. Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Comm rpt: Subst. for SF on Calendar HF3783 Bill Text 2E Relating to commerce; regulating motor vehicle retail installment fees, insurance fees, coverages, contracts, filings and forms; regulating financial planners, real estate appraisers, limited broker licenses, domestic mutual insurance companies, joint underwriting associations, service contracts and collection agencies; making technical and clarifying changes; increasing documentary or documentary administration fees for motor vehicle retail installment sales; defining motor vehicle manufacturer and regulating motor vehicle service contracts issued by motor vehicle manufacturers covering private passenger automobiles; changing service contract to include towing, rental and road service and hazard protections; specifying initial reinsurance intermediary license duration requirements; modifying duties of insurers using agents or brokers in a life insurance or annuity sale; clarifying changes for accident and health [...] show full description SF1787 - Workers' compensation coverage federal exclusions information and report required.
Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Governor's action Approval 05/04/07 Bill Text Workers' compensation coverage federal exclusions information and report required. Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Governor's action Veto Ch. 55 05/07/07 Bill Text 3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY Appropriating money for jobs and economic development purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for grants for rural policy and development center at St. Peter, for women's business development programs, university enterprise laboratories (UEL) bioscience development activities, the redevelopment grant program, for DEED small businesses department services and a technology and commercialization unit, for the small community wastewater treatment program, small business growth program, bioscience business development programs, the urban challenge grant program, the bioscience business marketing program, and the nanotechnology development fund program [...] show full description SF2147 - Workers compensation improper medical records access penalties
Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Judiciary Bill Text Relating to workers compensation; providing penalties for certain persons or contractors representing an employer from gaining improper access to an employees medical data under certain conditions; specifying posting requirements in health care providers workplaces (je) SF0691 - No-fault automobile insurance and workers compensation medical examinations integrity and fairness
Latest Action: 02/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text Providing for integrity and fairness in medical examinations under no-fault automobile insurance and workers compensation; modifying the obligation to submit to adverse medical examination requests by automobile insurers or employers; limiting the number of adverse examinations allowed to be performed per physician; authorizing paper reviews, prohibiting the denial of benefits or claims based on paper examinations (me) HF1993 - Human services program integrity improvements provided; and public assistance overpayments, public assistance declarations, workers' compensation data, and commissioner's subpoena authority modified.
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Bill Text Human services program integrity improvements provided; and public assistance overpayments, public assistance declarations, workers' compensation data, and commissioner's subpoena authority modified. HF1848 - Employers required to pay for continued health coverage for injured workers, and attorney fee payment required in certain cases.
Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Labor Bill Text Employers required to pay for continued health coverage for injured workers, and attorney fee payment required in certain cases. HF2047 - Workers' compensation coverage for mental injury caused by mental stress provided.
Latest Action: 03/13/2007 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Labor Bill Text Workers' compensation coverage for mental injury caused by mental stress provided. Latest Action: 02/12/2008 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Labor Bill Text Qualified rehabilitation consultant fees modified. HF2248 - Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted.
Latest Action: 04/11/2007 - Author added Hansen Bill Text Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted. HF2381 - Workers' compensation, retraining, and fee provisions modified; advisory commission established; and report and rulemaking required.
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Labor Bill Text Workers' compensation, retraining, and fee provisions modified; advisory commission established; and report and rulemaking required. HF2290 - Worker's compensation; improper access to medical records penalties provided.
Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - House rule 4.20, interim disposition of bills, returned to Public Safety and Civil Justice Bill Text HF 2290 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Worker's compensation; improper access to medical records penalties provided. Section 1: Theft of medical records language provided. JAJ 3/27/7 HF3566 - Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adopted.
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register Bill Text 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 [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - Committee report, without further rec to amend, re-refer to Rules and Legislative Administration Bill Text HF 3936 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Bomb squad employee disability payments provided. Section 1: Permanent total disability benefits for bomb squad employees language is provided. SNA 3/19/08 HF0610 - Workers' compensation rehabilitation services fees regulated.
Latest Action: 02/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Labor Bill Text Workers' compensation rehabilitation services fees regulated. HF3783 - Insurance provisions regulated relating to fees, coverages, contracts, filings, forms, financial planners, vehicle sales, appraisers, subdivided lands, domestic mutual insurance companies, collection agencies, and underwriting associations.
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill Text HF 3783 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Insurance provisions regulated relating to fees, coverages, contracts, filings, forms, financial planners, vehicle sales, appraisers, subdivided lands, domestic mutual insurance companies, collection agencies, and underwriting associations. Section 1: Cash sale price language is modified. Section 2: Scope and purpose language is modified. Section 3: Motor vehicle manufacturer language is provided. Section 4: Service contract language is modified. Section 5: Coverages, limitations, and exclusions language is modified. Section 6: Duration; fees language is modified. Section 7: Definitions are modified. Section 8: Duties of insurers that use agents or brokers language is modified. Section 9: Application language is modified. Section 10: Minimum benefits language is modified. Section 11: [...] show full description HF0122 - Omnibus jobs, economic development, and housing finance bill establishing and modifying programs; and appropriating money.
Latest Action: 05/20/2007 - Returned from Senate with amendment Bill Text HF 122 SECOND ENGROSSMENT American flags for sale required to be manufactured in the United States. ARTICLE 1: JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY Section 1: Summary of appropriations language provided. Section 2: Jobs and economic development appropriations language provided. Section 3: Employment and economic development language provided. Section 4: Explore Minnesota tourism language provided. Section 5: Housing finance agency language provided. Section 6: Labor and industry language provided. Section 7: Bureau of mediation services language provided. Section 8: Workers' compensation court of appeals language provided. Section 9: Minnesota Historical Society language provided. Section 10: Board of the arts language provided. Section 11: Board of accountancy [...] show full description HF1255 - Workers' compensation; independent contractor status determination powers clarified, and documents review required.
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Division action, to pass and return to Commerce and Labor Bill Text Workers' compensation; independent contractor status determination powers clarified, and documents review required. HF1865 - Commissioner of labor and industry required to provide information regarding federal exclusions from state workers' compensation coverage, and report required.
Latest Action: 04/17/2007 - Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register Bill Text HF 1865 FIRST ENGROSSMENT Commissioner of labor and industry required to provide information regarding federal exclusions from state workers' compensation coverage, and report required. Section 1: Workers' compensation exclusion information language provided. Section 2: Report language provided. Section 3: Effective date provided. JAJ 3/27/7 HF3569 - University of Minnesota directed to study workers' health including lung health, and money appropriated.
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Secretary of State Ch. 248 04/28/08 Bill Text HF 3569 SECOND ENGROSSMENT University of Minnesota directed to study workers' health including lung health, and money appropriated. Section 1: Appropriation; University of Minnesota Workers' health study language is provided. Section 2: Transfer language provided. Section 3: Effective date provided. SNA 5/2/08 HF1591 - Workers' compensation payment and retraining provisions modified.
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Referred by Chair to Labor and Consumer Protection Division Bill Text Workers' compensation payment and retraining provisions modified. HF1592 - Workers' Compensation Advisory Council appointing authorities modified.
Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Referred by Chair to Labor and Consumer Protection Division Bill Text Workers' Compensation Advisory Council appointing authorities modified. |
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