Supplemental benefits
Under current law, an injured employee who is receiving the maximum weekly
benefit in effect at the time of the injury for permanent total disability or continuous
temporary total disability resulting from an injury that occurred before January 1,
2001, is entitled to receive supplemental benefits in an amount that, when added to
the employee's regular benefits, equals $582. Those supplemental benefits are
payable in the first instance by the employer or insurer, but the employer or insurer
then is entitled to reimbursement for those supplemental benefits paid from the
worker's compensation operations fund.
This bill makes an employee who is injured prior to January 1, 2003, eligible
for those supplemental benefits beginning on the effective date of the bill and
increases the maximum supplemental benefit amount for a week of disability
occurring after the effective date of the bill to an amount that, when added to the
employee's regular benefits, equals $615.
Statute of limitations; traumatic injuries
Under current law, subject to certain exceptions, an application for a hearing
on a claim for worker's compensation that is not filed with DWD within 12 years from
the date of injury or death or from the date that worker's compensation was last paid,
whichever is later, is barred by the statute of limitations.
This bill reduces the statute of limitations for filing an application for a hearing
on a worker's compensation claim for a traumatic injury to two years from the date
of injury or death or from the date that worker's compensation was last paid,
whichever is later.
Temporary disability
Exception for employee terminated for misconduct or substantial fault.
Under current law, temporary disability benefits are payable during an employee's
healing period, even thought the employee could return to a restricted type of work,
unless: 1) suitable employment within the limitations of the employee is furnished
by the employer or by some other employer; 2) the employee has been convicted of
a crime, is incarcerated, and is not available to return to a restricted type of work
during that period; 3) the employee is suspended or terminated from employment
due to the employee's alleged commission of a crime, the circumstances of which
substantially relate to the employment, and the employee is charged with the
commission of that crime; or 4) the employee is suspended or terminated from
employment due to the employee's violation of the employer's drug policy, if prior to
the date of injury that policy was established in writing and regularly enforced by
the employer.
This bill provides that an employer is not liable for temporary disability
benefits during an employee's healing period when the employee is suspended or
terminated from employment due to misconduct, as defined in the unemployment
insurance law, or substantial fault, as defined in the unemployment insurance law,
by the employee connected with the employee's work.
The unemployment insurance law defines "misconduct" as action or conduct
evincing such willful or wanton disregard of an employer's interests as is found in:
1) deliberate violation or disregard of standards of behavior that an employer has a
right to expect of his or her employees; or 2) carelessness or negligence of such degree
or recurrence as to manifest culpability, wrongful intent, or evil design in disregard
of the employer's interests or to show an intentional and substantial disregard of an
employer's interests or of an employee's duties and obligations to his or her employer.
The unemployment insurance law defines "substantial fault" as acts or
omissions of an employee over which the employee exercised reasonable control that
violate reasonable requirements of the employee's employer, but not including minor
infractions, inadvertent errors, or failure to perform work due to insufficient skill,
ability, or equipment.
Renewed period of temporary disability; amount of compensation
payable. Under current law, subject to certain exceptions, the amount of worker's
compensation payable to an injured employee is determined in accordance with the
rate of worker's compensation payable that is in effect as of the date of the injury.
One of of those exceptions, however, provides that when an injured employee has a
renewed period of temporary disability commencing more than two years after the
date of injury and has returned to work for at least ten days preceding the renewed
period of disability, worker's compensation payments for the new period of disability
are at the rate in effect at the commencement of the new period of disability.
This bill eliminates that exception. As such, under the bill, when an injured
employee has a renewed period of temporary disability commencing more than two
years after the date of injury and has returned to work for at least ten days preceding
the renewed period of disability, worker's compensation payments for the new period
of disability are at the rate that is in effect as of the date of the injury.
Vocational rehabilitation. Under current law, an injured employee is
entitled to receive compensation for temporary disability while the employee is
receiving vocational rehabilitation services under the federal Rehabilitation Act of
1973. If, however, the injury causes only partial disability, the employee's weekly
indemnity is the proportion of the weekly indemnity rate for total disability that the
actual wage loss of the injured employee bears to the injured employee's average
weekly wage at the time of injury, except that compensation for temporary disability
on account of receiving vocational rehabilitation services shall not be reduced on
account of any wages earned for the first 24 hours worked by an employee during a
week in which the employee is receiving those services and only hours worked in
excess of 24 during that week shall be offset against the employee's average weekly
wage in calculating compensation for temporary disability. That exception, however,
does not apply after April 30, 2014. This bill extends that exception to April 30, 2018.
Prescription drug treatment
Under current law, an employer or insurer is liable for providing medicines as
may be reasonably required to cure and relieve an injured employee from the effects
of an injury sustained while performing services growing out of and incidental to
employment. Current law, however, limits the liability of an employer or insurer for
the cost of a prescription drug dispensed for outpatient use by an injured employee
to the average wholesale price of the prescription drug as quoted in the Drug Topics
Red Book (average wholesale price).
This bill provides that if a prescription drug dispensed for outpatient use by an
injured employee is a repackaged prescription drug, the liability of the employer or
insurer for the cost of the repackaged prescription drug is limited to the average
wholesale price of the prescription drug set by the original manufacturer of the
prescription drug, except that if the National Drug Code number of the prescription
drug as packaged by the original manufacturer cannot be determined from the
billing statement submitted to the employer or insurer, that liability is limited to the
average wholesale price of the lowest-priced drug product equivalent. The bill also
provides that an employer or insurer is not liable for the cost of a repackaged
prescription drug dispensed more than seven days after an employee's date of injury.
Those limitations of liability, however, do not apply to a repackaged prescription drug
dispensed from a retail, mail-order, or institutional pharmacy.
Permanent partial disability
Under current law, DWD has promulgated rules establishing minimum
permanent partial disability ratings for certain amputation levels, losses of motion,
sensory losses, or surgical procedures resulting from injuries for which permanent
partial disability is claimed.
This bill requires those rules to provide that those minimum ratings for a
surgical procedure do not apply if it is shown that after the procedure the injured
employee suffers from no actual impairment as a result of his or her injury.
Hearings and procedures
Notice of injury
Under current law, if an injured employee does not file an application for
worker's compensation with DWD within two years after the date of injury or the
date the employee knew or ought to have known of his or her disability and its
relationship to employment, the injured employee's right to worker's compensation
for the injury is barred, unless within that two-year period the employer knew or
should have known of the injury.
This bill reduces that two-year period to one year.
Health care records in electronic format
Under current law, a physician, chiropractor, psychologist, podiatrist, dentist,
physician assistant, advance practice nurse prescriber, hospital, or health service
provider, upon request by an injured employee, employer, insurer, DWD, or DHA,
must provide that person with any written material that is reasonably related to an
injury for which the employee claims worker's compensation, upon payment of the
actual cost of providing those materials, not to exceed the greater of 45 cents per page
or $7.50 per request, plus the actual costs of postage.
This bill permits that material to be provided in electronic format upon
payment of $26 per request.
Final practitioner's report
Under current law, if an injured employee has a period of temporary disability
of more than three weeks or a permanent disability, has undergone surgery to treat
an injury, other than surgery to correct a hernia, or sustains an eye injury requiring
medical treatment on three or more occasions off the employer's premises, the
employer or insurer must submit to DWD a final treating practitioner's report.
Current law, however, prohibits DWD from requiring submission of that report when
the employer or insurer denies the employee's claim for compensation and the
employee does not contest that denial. This bill limits that prohibition to cases in
which the employer or insurer denies the employee's claim for compensation in its
entirety.
Prospective vocational rehabilitation training orders
Under current law, any party in interest may submit to DWD any controversy
concerning worker's compensation and DHA, after hearing, must issue an order
determining the rights of the parties regarding the controversy. Current law also
permits DHA to issue interlocutory, i.e., nonfinal, findings, orders, and awards,
which may be enforced in the same manner as final awards. Current law specifically
permits DHA to include in an interlocutory or final award or order an order directing
the employer or insurer to pay for any future treatment that may be necessary to cure
and relieve an injured employee from the effects of the employee's injury.
This bill permits DHA to include in an interlocutory or final award or order an
order directing the employer or insurer to pay for a future course of instruction or
other rehabilitation training services provided under a rehabilitation training
program.
Review of permanent partial disability awards
Under current law, a DHA hearing examiner's decision awarding or denying
worker's compensation generally is final and may not be reopened after the time for
reconsideration or appeal of the decision has passed. Current law, however, permits
DHA, in cases of occupational disease, to review from time to time its findings, order,
or award, and make new findings or a new order or award, based on the facts
regarding disability as they may then appear.
This bill, in cases in which DHA makes a final award of worker's compensation
based on a finding that the injured employee has incurred a permanent partial
disability, requires DHA to order the injured employee to submit to a reexamination
by a practitioner once every three years after the date of the award or order upon the
written request of the employer or insurer. After such a reexamination, a party to
the worker's compensation proceeding may file an application requesting DHA to
review its findings on the issue of the level of the employee's disability. After that
review, DHA may make new findings on that issue and order a new award based on
the level of the employee's disability as it may then appear.
Administrative review of a worker's compensation decision
Under current law, a party to a worker's compensation proceeding may petition
the Labor and Industry Review Commission (LIRC) for review of a DHA hearing
examiner's decision awarding or denying worker's compensation (petition for
review) if DHA, DWD, or LIRC receives the petition for review within 21 days after
DHA or DWD mailed a copy of the examiner's findings and order to the petitioner's
last-known address. Currently, LIRC must dismiss a petition for review that is not
timely filed unless the petitioner shows probable good cause that the reason for
failure to timely file the petition was beyond the petitioner's control. This bill
requires a party to file a petition for review with LIRC, not DHA or DWD. The bill
also requires LIRC to dismiss a petition for review that is not filed within those 21
days unless the petitioner shows that the petition was filed late for a reason that was
beyond the petitioner's control.
Under current law, within 28 days after a decision of LIRC is mailed to the
last-known address of each party to a worker's compensation proceeding, LIRC may,
on its own motion, set aside the decision for further consideration. This bill permits
LIRC to set aside a decision within 28 days after the date of the decision, not the date
of its mailing.
Judicial review of a worker's compensation decision
Under current law, a party that is aggrieved by an order or award made by LIRC
may commence an action against LIRC in circuit court for judicial review of the order
or award (action for judicial review). Current law requires the adverse party to also
be made a defendant in an action for judicial review. Recently, a concurring opinion
in Xcel Energy Services, Inc. v. LIRC, 2013 WI 64, "unequivocally and firmly"
recommended that the Council on Worker's Compensation propose legislative
revisions to clarify who must be included as a party in an action for judicial review.
Id. at p. 71. That concurring opinion further proposed that LIRC consider adopting
the practice of providing information with its order or award instructing the parties
as to who is to be named as an adverse party in an action for judicial review. Id. at
p. 73.
This bill requires LIRC to identify in an order or award the persons that must
be made parties to an action for judicial review. The bill also requires the summons
and complaint in the action to name those persons as defendants. In addition, the
bill permits the circuit court to join as a party to the action any other person
determined necessary for the proper resolution of the action, unless joinder of the
person would unduly delay the resolution of the action.
Program administration
Health service fee disputes
Under current law, if a health service provider, injured employee, insurer, or
employer submits to DWD a dispute over the reasonableness of a health service fee
charged for services provided to the injured employee, DWD must determine the
reasonableness of the disputed fee by comparing the disputed fee to the mean fee for
the procedure for which the disputed fee was charged, as shown by data from a
database certified by DWD.
This bill provides that if an employer or insurer and a health care provider have
agreed by contract to a fee for a health service procedure, DWD must determine that
the disputed fee is reasonable and order that the disputed fee be paid, if the disputed
fee is at or below the agreed-to fee in effect on the day on which the procedure was
provided, and must determine that the disputed fee is unreasonable and order that
the agreed-to fee be paid, if the disputed fee is above the agreed-to fee in effect on
the day on which the procedure was provided.
Choice of practitioner
Current law requires the employer of an injured employee to offer the injured
employee his or her choice of any practitioner licensed to practice in this state for
treatment of the injury. Current law also permits an injured employee to have the
choice of any qualified practitioner not licensed in this state, by mutual agreement
between the injured employee and the employer.
This bill: 1) requires the employer of an injured employee who is covered under
a health benefit plan provided by the employer to offer the injured employee his or
her choice of any practitioner licensed to practice in this or any other state for
treatment of the injury as provided under the health benefit plan; and 2) requires the
employer of an injured employee who is not covered under a health benefit plan
provided by the employer to offer the injured employee the employer's choice of any
practitioner licensed to practice in this state or any other state for treatment of the
injury in accordance with the employee's treatment plan. The bill specifies that in
the case of an injured employee who is not covered under a health benefit plan
provided by the employer, the employer may choose a particular practitioner to treat
the injured employee, but may not choose the type of treatment to be provided or the
type of practitioner to provide that treatment.
Investigation and prosecution of fraudulent activity
Under current law, if an insurer or self-insured employer has evidence that a
worker's compensation claim is false or fraudulent and if the insurer or self-insurer
is satisfied that reporting the claim will not impede its ability to defend the claim,
the insurer or self-insured employer must report the claim to DWD. DWD may then
require the insurer or self-insured employer to investigate the claim and report the
results of the investigation to DWD. If, based on the investigation, DWD has a
reasonable basis to believe that criminal insurance fraud has occurred, DWD must
refer the matter to the district attorney for prosecution.
This bill permits DWD to request the Department of Justice (DOJ) to assist
DWD in an investigation of a false or fraudulent worker's compensation claim of any
other suspected fraudulent activity on the part of an employer, employee, insurer,
health care provider, or other person related to worker's compensation. If, based on
the investigation, DWD has a reasonable basis to believe that theft, forgery, fraud,
or any other criminal violation has occurred, DWD must refer the matter to the
district attorney or DOJ for prosecution.
Self-insured employers
Election by governmental employer to self-insure. Under current law,
every employer that is subject to the worker's compensation law must carry worker's
compensation insurance from an insurer that is authorized to do business in this
state (duty to insure), except that DWD may exempt an employer from the duty to
insure if the employer shows that it can self-insure its worker's compensation
liability and if the employer agrees to report all compensable injuries and to comply
with the worker's compensation law and the rules of DWD. DWD rules, however,
permit the state or a local governmental unit to self-insure without further order of
DWD.
This bill codifies those DWD rules into the statutes. Specifically, the bill
permits the state or a local governmental unit that has independent taxing authority
(governmental employer) to elect to self-insure its worker's compensation liability
without further order of DWD if the governmental employer agrees to report all
compensable injuries and to comply with the worker's compensation law and the
rules of DWD. Under the bill, a local governmental unit that elects to self-insure its
liability for the payment of worker's compensation must notify DWD of that election
in writing before commencing to self-insure that liability, must notify DWD of its
intent to continue to self-insure that liability every three years after that initial
notice, and must notify DWD of its intent to withdraw that election not less than 30
days before the effective date of that withdrawal.
Revocation of governmental employer election to self-insure. Current
law permits DWD, after seeking the advice of the Self-Insurer's Council, to revoke
an exemption from the duty to insure if DWD finds that the employer's financial
condition is inadequate to pay its employees' claims for compensation, that the
employer has received an excessive number of claims for compensation, or that the
employer has failed to discharge faithfully its obligations according to the agreement
contained in the application for exemption.
This bill permits DWD to revoke an election by a governmental employer to
self-insure its liability for worker's compensation, without seeking the advice of the
Self-Insurer's Council, if DWD finds that the governmental employer's financial
condition is inadequate to pay its employees' claims for compensation, that the
governmental employer has received an excessive number of claims for
compensation, or that the governmental employer has failed to discharge faithfully
its obligations under the worker's compensation law and the rules of DWD. Under
the bill, once such an election is revoked, the governmental employer whose election
is revoked may not elect to self-insure its liability for the payment of worker's
compensation unless at least three calendar years have elapsed since the revocation
and DWD finds that the governmental employer's financial condition is adequate to
pay its employees' claims for compensation, that the governmental employer has not
received an excessive number of claims for compensation, and that the governmental
employer has faithfully discharged its obligations under the worker's compensation
law and the rules of DWD.
Self-insured employer assessments. Current law establishes a self-insured
employers liability fund, consisting of assessments paid into the fund by self-insured
employers, that is used to pay the worker's compensation liability of current or
former self-insured employers that cannot pay that liability. Under current law, on
issuance of an order exempting an employer from the duty to insure, the exempt
employer must pay into the fund an amount that is equal to the amount assessed
upon each other exempt employer (initial assessment). Subsequent assessments,
however, are prorated on the basis of the gross payroll for this state of the exempt
employer, as reported to DWD for the previous calendar year for purposes of
unemployment insurance.
This bill requires an initial assessment, as well as subsequent assessments, for
the self-insurer's fund to be prorated on the basis of the gross payroll for this state
of the exempt employer, as reported to DWD for the previous calendar year for
purposes of unemployment insurance.
The bill also removes governmental employers from the coverage of the
self-insurer's fund. Specifically, the bill prohibits DWD from: 1) requiring a
governmental employer that elects to self-insure its liability for the payment of
worker's compensation to pay into the self-insurer's fund; and 2) making payments
from that fund for the liability under the worker's compensation law of such an
employer, whether currently or formerly exempt from the duty to insure.
Study of light-duty programs
Under current law, temporary disability benefits are payable for loss of
earnings during a period when an injured employee could return to a restricted type
of work during the employee's healing period, unless suitable employment that is
within the physical and mental limitations of the employee is furnished to the
employee by the employee's employer or by some other employer. Currently, if the
employee's employer or some other employer makes a good faith offer of suitable
employment that is within the physical and mental limitations of the employee and
if the employee refuses without reasonable cause to accept the offer, the employee is
considered to have returned to work as of the date of the offer at the earnings the
employee would have received but for the refusal.
This bill requires the secretary of workforce development to create a committee
to study ways and means of encouraging employers to provide, and injured
employees to participate in, light-duty programs under which injured employees
who can return to restricted types of work during their healing periods are furnished
with suitable employment that is within the physical and mental limitations of those
employees. The study must include an examination of the types of physical and
mental limitations that do not preclude a return to work during the healing period
and the types of work that are suitable for injured employees who have those
limitations. The committee must include representatives of employers, employees,
worker's compensation insurers authorized to do business in this state, and DWD.
Upon completion of the study, the committee must report its findings, conclusions,
and recommendations to DWD and the Council on Worker's Compensation, after
which the committee ceases to exist.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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20.445
(1) (ra)
Worker's compensation operations fund; administration. From
4the worker's compensation operations fund, the amounts in the schedule for the
5administration of the worker's compensation program by the department,
for
6assistance to the department of justice in investigating and prosecuting fraudulent
7activity related to worker's compensation, for transfer to the uninsured employers
8fund under s. 102.81 (1) (c), and for transfer to the appropriation accounts under par.
9(rp) and s. 20.427 (1) (ra). All moneys received under ss. 102.28 (2) (b) and 102.75
10shall be credited to this appropriation account. From this appropriation, an amount
11not to exceed $5,000 may be expended each fiscal year for payment of expenses for
12travel and research by the council on worker's compensation, an amount not to
1exceed $500,000 may be transferred in each fiscal year to the uninsured employers
2fund under s. 102.81 (1) (c), the amount in the schedule under par. (rp) shall be
3transferred to the appropriation account under par. (rp), and the amount in the
4schedule under s. 20.427 (1) (ra) shall be transferred to the appropriation account
5under s. 20.427 (1) (ra).
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6Section
2. 101.654 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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101.654
(2) (b) If the applicant is required under s. 102.28 (2) (a) to have in force
8a policy of worker's compensation insurance or if the applicant is self-insured in
9accordance with s. 102.28 (2) (b)
or (bm), that the applicant has in force a policy of
10worker's compensation insurance issued by an insurer authorized to do business in
11this state or is self-insured in accordance with s. 102.28 (2) (b)
or (bm).
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12Section
3. 102.01 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.01
(2) (d)
"Municipality" includes a county, city, town, village, school
14district, sewer district, drainage district and long-term care district and "Local
15governmental unit" means a political subdivision of this state; a special purpose
16district or taxing jurisdiction, as defined in s. 70.114 (1) (f), in this state; an
17instrumentality, corporation, combination, or subunit of any of the foregoing; or any 18other public or quasi-public
corporations corporation.
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19Section
4. 102.03 (1) (c) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.03
(1) (c) 3. An employee is not performing service growing out of and
21incidental to his or her employment while going to or from employment in a private
22or group or employer-sponsored car pool, van pool, commuter bus service, or other
23ride-sharing program in which the employee participates voluntarily and the sole
24purpose of which is the mass transportation of employees to and from employment.
25An employee is not performing service growing out of and incidental to employment
1while engaging in a program, event, or activity designed to improve the physical
2well-being of the employee, whether or not the program, event, or activity is located
3on the employer's premises, if participation in the program, event, or activity is
4voluntary
and, the employee receives no compensation for participation
, and the
5program, event, or activity is outside the scope of the employee's employment.
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6Section
5. 102.03 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.03
(4) The right to compensation and the amount of the compensation shall
8in all cases be determined in accordance with the provisions of law in effect as of the
9date of the injury except as to employees whose rate of compensation is changed as
10provided in
ss. 102.43 (7) or s. 102.44 (1) or (5) or, before May 1,
2014 2018, as provided
11in s. 102.43 (5) (c) and employees who are eligible to receive private rehabilitative
12counseling and rehabilitative training under s. 102.61 (1m) and except as provided
13in s. 102.555 (12) (b).
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14Section
6. 102.03 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
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102.03
(6) If an employee who suffers an injury outside the territorial limits
16of this state files a claim for compensation under the laws of another jurisdiction and
17that claim is denied on the merits by a final decision of that jurisdiction, the employee
18may not make a claim for compensation under the laws of this state for the same
19injury.
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20Section
7. 102.04 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.04
(1) (a) The state
, and each
county, city, town, village, school district,
22sewer district, drainage district, long-term care district and other public or
23quasi-public corporations therein local governmental unit in this state.
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24Section
8. 102.04 (1) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
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1102.04
(1) (b) 1. Every person who
usually at any time employs 3 or more
2employees for services performed in this state, whether in one or more trades,
3businesses, professions, or occupations, and whether in one or more locations.
A
4person who employs 3 or more employees for services performed in this state becomes
5subject to this chapter on the day on which the person employs 3 or more such
6employees.
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7Section
9. 102.04 (2m) of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.04
(2m) A temporary help agency is the employer of an employee whom
9the temporary help agency has placed with or leased to another employer that
10compensates the temporary help agency for the employee's services. A temporary
11help agency is liable under s. 102.03 for all compensation and other payments
12payable under this chapter to or with respect to that employee, including any
13payments required under s. 102.16 (3), 102.18 (1) (b)
3. or (bp), 102.22 (1), 102.35 (3),
14102.57, or 102.60. Except as permitted under s. 102.29, a temporary help agency may
15not seek or receive reimbursement from another employer for any payments made
16as a result of that liability.
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17Section
10. 102.07 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.07
(1) (a) Every person, including all officials, in the service of the state,
19or of any
municipality therein local governmental unit in this state, whether elected
20or under any appointment
, or contract of hire, express or implied, and whether a
21resident
of the state or employed or injured within or without the state. The state
22and or any
municipality local governmental unit may require a bond from a
23contractor to protect the state or
municipality local governmental unit against
24compensation to employees of
such the contractor or
to employees of a subcontractor
25under the contractor. This paragraph does not apply beginning on the first day of the
1first July beginning after the day that the secretary files the certificate under s.
2102.80 (3) (a), except that if the secretary files the certificate under s. 102.80 (3) (ag)
3this paragraph does apply to claims for compensation filed on or after the date
4specified in that certificate.
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5Section
11. 102.07 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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102.07
(1) (b) Every person, including all officials, in the service of the state,
7or of any
municipality therein local governmental unit in this state, whether elected
8or under any appointment
, or contract of hire, express or implied, and whether a
9resident
of the state or employed or injured within or without the state. This
10paragraph first applies on the first day of the first July beginning after the day that
11the secretary files the certificate under s. 102.80 (3) (a), except that if the secretary
12files the certificate under s. 102.80 (3) (ag) this paragraph does apply to claims for
13compensation filed on or after the date specified in that certificate.
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14Section
12. 102.07 (3) of the statutes is amended to read: