Senate File 2221 - Enrolled

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  1  1                                             SENATE FILE 2221
  1  2
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION BENEFIT PAYMENTS FOR BURIAL
  1  5    EXPENSES.
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  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  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 exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars twelve 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.
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  1 22                                                             
  1 23                               JOHN P. KIBBIE
  1 24                               President of the Senate
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  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.
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  1 35                                                             
  2  1                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  2  2                               Secretary of the Senate
  2  3 Approved                , 2008
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  2  6                                
  2  7 CHESTER J. CULVER
  2  8 Governor