Amendment SA1-SB474

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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO 2005 SENATE BILL 474

February 28, 2006 - Offered by Senators Hansen, Carpenter, Plale, Breske, Miller and Risser.

SB474-SA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

SB474-SA1,1,2 1. Page 41, line 5: after that line insert:

SB474-SA1,2,3 "(2m) Permanent total disability cost-of-living adjustments. In its recommendations under section 102.14 (2) of the statutes for the 2007-08 legislative session, the council on worker's compensation shall submit proposed legislation providing for periodic adjustments in the weekly indemnity for permanent total disability based on changes in the cost of living. The proposed legislation shall ensure that injured employees who are qualified for worker's compensation based on permanent total disability receive an adequate income that is reflective of the cost of living. In preparing that proposed legislation, the council on worker's compensation shall consider how frequently and in what amount those periodic adjustments should be made, how those adjustments should be funded for injured employees receiving weekly indemnity for permanent total disability on the day before the effective date of the proposed legislation, and whether any worker's compensation benefits under current law should be limited so as to offset part or all of the cost of those adjustments.".

SB474-SA1,2,4 (End)