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Senate committee gives unanimous do-pass to bill raising WSI caps for home and vehicle adaptations
Summary
Representative Cynthia Schreiber Beck, District 25, told the Senate Industry and Business Committee that House Bill 1423 would raise Workforce Safety & Insurance caps for adaptations to real estate and motor vehicles and the committee voted 5-0 to give the bill a do-pass recommendation.
Representative Cynthia Schreiber Beck, District 25, told the Senate Industry and Business Committee that House Bill 1423 would raise Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) benefit caps for adaptations to real estate and motor vehicles. The committee voted 5-0 to give the bill a do-pass recommendation.
The bill would raise the cap for real-estate adaptations from $75,000 to $150,000 and the cap for vehicle purchase or modification from $150,000 to $200,000. Schreiber Beck said the real-estate cap has not been increased since 2011 and the vehicle cap since 2013.
The change matters because the caps govern payments to injured workers for home modifications or…
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