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Senate committee amends House Bill 81 to add $7 million annually to BWC safety grants and removes ombudsman renaming

3717460 · May 6, 2025
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The Senate Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee adopted two unanimous amendments to amended House Bill 81, increasing BWC safety-grant funding by $7 million per fiscal year and removing a statutory renaming of the workers’ compensation ombudsman system.

Senators at the Financial Institutions, Insurance and Technology Committee unanimously adopted two amendments to amended House Bill 81 during the committee’s fourth hearing.

Senator Patton moved an amendment (identified in the hearing as amendment 0505) that increases the appropriation for the Bureau of Workers’…

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