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Committee backs increasing workplace death funeral benefit to $10,000
Summary
The committee voted to send House Bill 67 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation. Sponsors and witnesses said the change updates a death benefit last set in 1993 and is paid through employers' workers' compensation insurance, not state funds.
The committee voted to send House Bill 67 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation after representatives and witnesses described the bill as an update to an outdated workers’ compensation death benefit.
Representative Bruce Scogg, District 10, introduced the bill and asked the committee to forward it to the House floor. He said the proposal raises the funeral expense benefit for workers who die on the job from $6,000 to $10,000 and noted the benefit is funded by employers…
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