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House File 188

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Bill Introduced: H.J. 227
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 85.70, Code 1999, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    85.70  ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR ATTENDANCE.
  1  4    An employee who has sustained an injury resulting in
  1  5 permanent partial or permanent total disability, for which
  1  6 compensation is payable under this chapter, and who cannot is
  1  7 unable to return to gainful employment in the job the employee
  1  8 held at the time of the injury because of such disability,
  1  9 shall upon application to and approval by the workers'
  1 10 compensation commissioner be entitled to a twenty-dollar
  1 11 weekly an additional worker training payment from the
  1 12 employer.  The worker training payment shall be in addition to
  1 13 any other benefit payments to the employee, during each full
  1 14 week in which the employee is not receiving healing period
  1 15 benefits pursuant to section 85.34, and is actively
  1 16 participating in a vocational rehabilitation program
  1 17 recognized by the vocational rehabilitation services division
  1 18 of the department of education or participating in any other
  1 19 training program, including apprenticeship training,
  1 20 recognized by the department of education.  The additional
  1 21 worker training payment authorized by this section shall be in
  1 22 an amount determined in the same manner as healing period
  1 23 benefits are calculated pursuant to section 85.37.  The
  1 24 workers' compensation commissioner's approval of such
  1 25 application for payment may be given only after a careful
  1 26 evaluation of available facts, and after consultation with the
  1 27 employer or the employer's representative.  Judicial review of
  1 28 the decision of the workers' compensation commissioner may be
  1 29 obtained in accordance with the terms of the Iowa
  1 30 administrative procedure Act and in section 86.26.  Such
  1 31 additional benefit payment shall be paid for a period not to
  1 32 exceed thirteen consecutive weeks except that the workers'
  1 33 compensation commissioner may extend the period of payment not
  1 34 to exceed an additional thirteen ninety-one weeks if the
  1 35 circumstances indicate that a continuation of training will in
  2  1 fact accomplish assist the employee's rehabilitation.  
  2  2                           EXPLANATION 
  2  3    This bill concerns the payment of additional moneys to
  2  4 certain injured workers who are participating in a recognized
  2  5 vocational rehabilitation or other training program.  Under
  2  6 current law, an employee with a permanent partial or permanent
  2  7 total disability who is unable to work can receive an extra
  2  8 $20 per week, for up to 26 total weeks, while participating in
  2  9 a vocational rehabilitation program.
  2 10    Under the bill, however, an employee can receive the
  2 11 additional payment if the employee with a permanent partial or
  2 12 permanent total disability is unable to return to the same job
  2 13 the employee had at the time of the injury, regardless of
  2 14 whether the employee could return to any other gainful
  2 15 employment.  In addition, the bill replaces the $20 payment
  2 16 with a payment calculated in the same manner as healing period
  2 17 benefit payments are made but provides that the employee can
  2 18 receive the additional payment only if the employee is not
  2 19 already receiving healing period benefits.  The bill also
  2 20 allows an employee to receive the benefit if the employee is
  2 21 participating in other training programs, including
  2 22 apprenticeship training, recognized by the department of
  2 23 education.  Finally, the bill permits the employee to receive
  2 24 the additional benefit for up to a total of 104 weeks(2
  2 25 years).  
  2 26 LSB 1921HH 78
  2 27 ec/jw/5

Text: HF00187                           Text: HF00189
Text: HF00100 - HF00199                 Text: HF Index
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