House File 2446

                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  EICHHORN, MANTERNACH,
                                           HUTTER, LUKAN,
                                           J. R. VAN FOSSEN, DENNIS,
                                           SCHICKEL, and TJEPKES


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to hearing schedules in contested cases before
  2    the workers' compensation commissioner.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6101HH 80
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  86.16  HEARINGS == SCHEDULING.
  1  2    All contested cases before the workers' compensation
  1  3 commissioner, except under unusual circumstances, shall be
  1  4 brought to issue and heard on a date that is no more than
  1  5 fourteen months from the date the original notice and petition
  1  6 is filed.
  1  7                           EXPLANATION
  1  8    This bill provides that all contested cases brought before
  1  9 the workers' compensation commissioner must have a hearing no
  1 10 later than 14 months after the original notice and petition in
  1 11 the case is filed.  An exception is made for unusual
  1 12 circumstances.
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