Senate Study Bill 3049 SENATE/HOUSE FILE BY (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BILL) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to workers' compensation benefit payments for 2 burial expenses. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5507DP 82 5 av/rj/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 85.28, Code 2007, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 85.28 BURIAL EXPENSE. 1 4 When death ensues from the injury, the employer shall pay 1 5 the reasonable expenses of burial of such employee, not to 1 6 exceedseven thousand five hundred dollarstwelve times the 1 7 statewide average weekly wage paid employees as determined by 1 8 the department of workforce development under section 96.19, 1 9 subsection 36, and in effect at the time of death, which shall 1 10 be in addition to other compensation or any other benefit 1 11 provided for in this chapter. 1 12 EXPLANATION 1 13 This bill provides a computation for determining workers' 1 14 compensation benefit payments for burial expenses, changing 1 15 from a flat $7,500 to 12 times the statewide average weekly 1 16 wage rate as determined by the department of workforce 1 17 development. 1 18 LSB 5507DP 82 1 19 av/rj/5