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Committee adopts amendment to workers'comp bill after employers, insurers warn of cost increases
Summary
The committee adopted an amendment to a workers'compensation bill that lowered a cap and adjusted permanent partial disability rates; employers and self-insured groups warned the changes would raise employer costs and asked for delay and further negotiation.
Senate Bill 285 returned to the Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee with an amendment offered by sponsor Senator Payton to lower a statutory cap, set an effective date of Jan. 1, 2026, and modify the calculation of permanent partial disability benefits.
"It lowers the cap from a 20 to a hundred thousand in the amendment. It establishes an effective date of January first of 2026 ... and the original bill affected permanent partial disability in a way that drove the cost way up. And so this takes the permanent partial disability back to…
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