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SB 130                                                                                            
Forthcoming fiscal notes (page 755) for the Labor and Commerce                                      
Committee Substitute for SENATE BILL NO. 130 "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;                                     
establishing a Workers' Compensation Appeals Commission;                                            
providing for workers' compensation hearing officers in workers'                                    
compensation proceedings; 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; 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                                   

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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; relating to the second injury                                  
fund; making conforming amendments; providing for a study and                                       
report by the medical services review committee; and providing for an                               
effective date" were published today:                                                               
 Fiscal Note No. 5, zero, Alaska Court System                                                       
 Fiscal Note No. 6, Department of Labor and Workforce                                               
       Development