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SB 130                                                                                            
CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 130(FIN) am by the Senate Finance                                            
Committee, entitled:                                                                                
                                                                                                    
    "An Act relating to a special deposit for workers' compensation                                 
    and employers' liability insurers; relating to assigned risk pools;                             
    relating to workers' compensation insurers; stating the intent of the                           
    legislature, and setting out limitations, concerning the                                        
    interpretation, construction, and implementation of workers'                                    
    compensation laws; relating to the Alaska Workers' Compensation                                 
    Board; assigning certain Alaska Workers' Compensation Board                                     
    functions to the division of workers' compensation in the                                       
    Department of Labor and Workforce Development and to that                                       
    department, and authorizing the board to delegate administrative                                
    and enforcement duties to the division; providing for workers'                                  
    compensation hearing officers in workers' compensation                                          
    proceedings; establishing a Workers' Compensation Appeals                                       
    Commission; relating to workers' compensation medical benefits                                  
    and to charges for and payment of fees for the medical benefits;                                
    relating to agreements that discharge workers' compensation                                     
    liability; relating to workers' compensation awards; relating to                                
    reemployment benefits and job dislocation benefits; relating to                                 
    coordination of workers' compensation and certain disability                                    
    benefits; relating to division of workers' compensation records;                                

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    relating to release of treatment records; relating to an employer's                             
    failure to insure and keep insured or provide security; providing                               
    for appeals from compensation orders; relating to workers'                                      
    compensation proceedings; providing for supreme court                                           
    jurisdiction of appeals from the Workers' Compensation Appeals                                  
    Commission; providing for a maximum amount for the cost-of-                                     
    living adjustment for workers' compensation benefits; relating to                               
    attorney fees with respect to workers' compensation; providing for                              
    the department to enter into contracts with nonprofit organizations                             
    to provide information services and legal representation to injured                             
    employees; providing for administrative penalties for employers                                 
    uninsured or without adequate security for workers' compensation;                               
    relating to fraudulent acts or false or misleading statements in                                
    workers' compensation and penalties for the acts or statements;                                 
    providing for members of a limited liability company to be                                      
    included as an employee for purposes of workers' compensation;                                  
    establishing a workers' compensation benefits guaranty fund;                                    
    making conforming amendments; providing for a study and report                                  
    by the medical services review committee; establishing the Task                                 
    Force on Workers' Compensation; and providing for an effective                                  
    date."                                                                                          
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the Labor & Commerce,                                       
Judiciary, and Finance Committees.