Senate File 2221 - Enrolled

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1	1	SENATE FILE 2221
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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. 1 20
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1 23	JOHN P. KIBBIE
1 24	President of the Senate
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1 28	PATRICK J. MURPHY
1 29	Speaker of the House
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1 31	I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
32 is known as Senate File 2221, Eighty=second General Assembly. 1 33
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1	MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
2	2	Secretary of the Senate
2	3 Approved	, 2008
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2	7 CHESTER J. CULVER
2	8 Governor