House File 743 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON LABOR

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 100)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring additional workers' compensation payments for
  2    scheduled injuries that result in a reduction in the injured
  3    employee's earning capacity.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1821HV 82
  6 av/gg/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 85.34, subsection 2, paragraph v, Code
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    v.  In all cases of permanent partial disability described
  1  4 or referred to in paragraphs "a" through "t" which cause a
  1  5 reduction in the employee's earning capacity greater than the
  1  6 weeks compensated in paragraphs "a" through "t", compensation
  1  7 shall be paid during the number of weeks in relation to five
  1  8 hundred weeks as the reduction in the employee's earning
  1  9 capacity caused by the disability bears in relation to the
  1 10 earning capacity that the employee possessed when the injury
  1 11 occurred.
  1 12    v.  w.  If it is determined that an injury has produced a
  1 13 disability less than that specifically described in the
  1 14 schedule described in paragraphs "a" through "t", compensation
  1 15 shall be paid during the lesser number of weeks of disability
  1 16 determined, as will not exceed a total amount equal to the
  1 17 same percentage proportion of said scheduled maximum
  1 18 compensation.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill amends Code section 85.34 to provide that for
  1 21 purposes of workers' compensation, a scheduled injury
  1 22 resulting in permanent partial disability that also results in
  1 23 a reduction in earning capacity greater than the weeks
  1 24 compensated in the schedule for that injury, shall be
  1 25 compensated in the same way as an unscheduled injury that
  1 26 results in permanent partial disability.  In that case
  1 27 compensation shall be paid during the number of weeks in
  1 28 relation to 500 weeks as the reduction in the employee's
  1 29 earning capacity caused by the disability bears in relation to
  1 30 the earning capacity that the employee possessed when the
  1 31 injury occurred.
  1 32 LSB 1821HV 82
  1 33 av:rj/gg/14