Amend House File 523 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, lines 10 and 11, by striking <, interest, or penalty benefits>
   2.  Page 1, lines 14 and 15, by striking <, interest, or penalty benefits>
   3.  Page 1, after line 26 by inserting: 
   <b.  A credit shall not be taken pursuant to this subsection until fifteen days after the employee has been provided with written notice of the amount of the credit, the basis for the credit, and the manner in which the credit will be applied to future weekly benefit payments. The maximum amount that an employer may claim as a credit for any weekly benefit is fifty percent of the employee’s workers’ compensation benefit rate.>
   4.  Page 1, line 27, by striking<b.> and inserting <c.>

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HORBACH of Tama