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SB 130                                                                                            
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'                                     

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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 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                              
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    

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Force on Workers' Compensation; and providing for an effective date"                                
was engrossed, signed by the President and Secretary and transmitted                                
to the House for consideration.