Senate Study Bill 1115 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON SMITH) A BILL FOR An Act prohibiting payment of workers’ compensation benefits 1 to alien dependents designated as terrorists pursuant to 2 federal law or subject to federal arrest warrants. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1593XC (2) 89 je/rn

S.F. _____ Section 1. Section 85.51, Code 2021, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 85.51 Alien dependents in foreign country. 3 In case a deceased employee for whose injury or death 4 compensation is payable leaves surviving an alien dependent 5 or dependents residing outside the United States, the consul 6 general, consul, vice consul, or consular agent of the nation 7 of which the said dependent or dependents are citizens, or 8 the duly appointed representative of such consular official 9 resident in the state of Iowa, shall be regarded as the 10 exclusive representative of such dependent or dependents, and 11 said the consular officials or their representatives shall 12 have the same rights and powers in all matters of compensation 13 which said the nonresident aliens would have if resident in 14 the state of Iowa. However, compensation shall not be payable 15 to a dependent who is designated as a terrorist by a federal 16 agency pursuant to applicable federal law or who is subject to 17 an arrest warrant issued by a federal agency. 18 EXPLANATION 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 20 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 21 This bill prohibits payment of workers’ compensation 22 benefits to a surviving alien dependent of a person to whom 23 such benefits were payable, if the dependent is not a resident 24 of the United States and is also either designated as a 25 terrorist by a federal agency pursuant to applicable federal 26 law or subject to an arrest warrant issued by a federal agency. 27 -1- LSB 1593XC (2) 89 je/rn 1/ 1