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Senate Finance panel backs workers' compensation advisory council recommendations; $2,500 filing fee estimated to raise $50,000 biennially
Summary
The Minnesota Senate Finance Committee recommended passage May 14 of legislation that adopts unanimous recommendations from the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, including a $2,500 filing fee for certain controlled-insurance programs that fiscal staff estimate will generate about $50,000 in new general fund revenue per biennium.
The Minnesota Senate Finance Committee on May 14 recommended passage of legislation adopting recommendations from the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, including a $2,500 filing fee for owner-controlled and contractor-controlled insurance programs that fiscal staff estimate will generate about $50,000 in new general fund revenue per biennium.
Senator McEwen told the committee the council — a 12-member body evenly split between labor and business representatives — unanimously approved the package of recommendations before the Legislature considered them. "The language, in that has just been amended into the bill today was passed unanimously by the council," Senator McEwen said.
Megan Bursch, a fiscal analyst supporting the Labor Committee, told senators the fiscal note completed by the departments of…
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