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House Amendment 8350

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 2190, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 3, by inserting after line 6, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Sec.    .  Section 85.70, Code 2001, is amended to
  1  6 read as follows:
  1  7    85.70  ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR ATTENDANCE.
  1  8    An employee who has sustained an injury resulting
  1  9 in permanent partial or permanent total disability,
  1 10 for which compensation is payable under this chapter,
  1 11 and who cannot is unable to return to gainful
  1 12 employment in the job the employee held at the time of
  1 13 the injury because of such disability, shall upon
  1 14 application to and approval by the workers'
  1 15 compensation commissioner be entitled to a twenty-
  1 16 dollar weekly an additional worker training payment
  1 17 from the employer.  The worker training payment shall
  1 18 be in addition to any other benefit payments to the
  1 19 employee, during each full week in which the employee
  1 20 is not receiving healing period benefits pursuant to
  1 21 section 85.34, and is actively participating in a
  1 22 vocational rehabilitation program recognized by the
  1 23 vocational rehabilitation services division of the
  1 24 department of education or participating in any other
  1 25 training program, including apprenticeship training,
  1 26 recognized by the department of education.  The
  1 27 additional worker training payment authorized by this
  1 28 section shall be in an amount determined in the same
  1 29 manner as healing period benefits are calculated
  1 30 pursuant to section 85.37.  The workers' compensation
  1 31 commissioner's approval of such application for
  1 32 payment may be given only after a careful evaluation
  1 33 of available facts, and after consultation with the
  1 34 employer or the employer's representative.  Judicial
  1 35 review of the decision of the workers' compensation
  1 36 commissioner may be obtained in accordance with the
  1 37 terms of the Iowa administrative procedure Act and in
  1 38 section 86.26.  Such additional benefit payment shall
  1 39 be paid for a period not to exceed thirteen
  1 40 consecutive weeks except that the workers'
  1 41 compensation commissioner may extend the period of
  1 42 payment not to exceed an additional thirteen ninety-
  1 43 one weeks if the circumstances indicate that a
  1 44 continuation of training will in fact accomplish
  1 45 assist the employee's rehabilitation."
  1 46    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 47 
  1 48 
  1 49                               
  1 50 DOTZLER of Black Hawk 
  2  1 SF 2190.202 79
  2  2 ec/sh
     

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