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SB 130                                                                                            
The Labor & Commerce Committee has considered:                                                      
                                                                                                    
     CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 130(FIN) am                                                             
     "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;                               
     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                              

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     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."                                                                                         
                                                                                                    
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                 
                                                                                                    
     HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 130(L&C)                                                   
     (forthcoming)                                                                                  
                                                                                                    
The report was signed by Representative Anderson, Chair, with the                                   
following individual recommendations:                                                               
                                                                                                    
Do pass (2):  Kott, LeDoux                                                                          
                                                                                                    
No recommendation (3):  Crawford, Lynn, Guttenberg                                                  
                                                                                                    
Amend (2):  Rokeberg, Anderson                                                                      
                                                                                                    
The following fiscal note(s) apply to HCS CSSB 130(L&C):                                            
                                                                                                    
5.  Zero, Alaska Court System                                                                       
7.  Zero, Dept. of Commerce, Community, & Economic Development                                      
8.  Fiscal, Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development                                                  
9.  Zero, Legislative Agency                                                                        
                                                                                                    
CSSB 130(FIN) am was referred to the Judiciary Committee.