Senate File 2221 - Enrolled PAG LIN 1 1 SENATE FILE 2221 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFIT PAYMENTS FOR BURIAL 1 5 EXPENSES. 1 6 1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 8 1 9 Section 1. Section 85.28, Code 2007, is amended to read as 1 10 follows: 1 11 85.28 BURIAL EXPENSE. 1 12 When death ensues from the injury, the employer shall pay 1 13 the reasonable expenses of burial of such employee, not to 1 14 exceedseven thousand five hundred dollarstwelve times the 1 15 statewide average weekly wage paid employees as determined by 1 16 the department of workforce development under section 96.19, 1 17 subsection 36, and in effect at the time of death, which shall 1 18 be in addition to other compensation or any other benefit 1 19 provided for in this chapter. 1 20 1 21 1 22 1 23 JOHN P. KIBBIE 1 24 President of the Senate 1 25 1 26 1 27 1 28 PATRICK J. MURPHY 1 29 Speaker of the House 1 30 1 31 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and 1 32 is known as Senate File 2221, Eighty=second General Assembly. 1 33 1 34 1 35 2 1 MICHAEL E. MARSHALL 2 2 Secretary of the Senate 2 3 Approved , 2008 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 CHESTER J. CULVER 2 8 Governor