Kentucky House Bill 296 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 23 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-07 - returned to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
Pending: Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Amend KRS 342.020 to limit the obligation to pay medical benefits indefinitely for certain permanent partial disabilities; limit medical benefits to age 70 or four years after date of injury, whichever is later, except for permanent total awards or awards involving prosthetic devices which continue for as long as the employee is disabled; limit the number of urine drug screens for which an employer, insurer, or payment obligor is required to pay; amend KRS 342.035 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to develop, adopt, and implement treatment guidelines and a pharmaceutical formulary on or before December 31, 2018; amend KRS 342.040 to reduce the amount of interest paid on awards; amend KRS 342.125 to clarify that the four-year reopening window begins only from the date of the original order granting or denying benefits; amend KRS 342.185 to provide a statute of repose for cumulative trauma claims; amend KRS 342.320 to increase limitation on attorney's fees to $18,000; amend KRS 342.700 to extend subrogation recovery of medical expenses and delete reference to legal fees and expense; amend KRS 342.730 to allow payment of temporary total disability benefits to be offset for net wages paid to an employee during a period of light-duty work or work in an alternative job position; amend KRS 342.990 to conform; specify the applicability of substantive changes to claims arising on or after effective date of Act and remedial changes to all claims irrespective of injury date.

AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.

Rep. Adam Koenig [R]	Rep. Bart Rowland [R]	Rep. Jim DeCesare [R]	Rep. Myron Dossett [R]
Rep. Phillip Pratt [R]	Rep. William Wells [R]	Rep. Addia Wuchner [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-07	Senate	returned to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
2017-03-07	Senate	2nd reading
2017-03-07	Senate	taken from Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	returned to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	1st reading
2017-03-06	Senate	taken from Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
2017-02-24	Senate	to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
2017-02-23	Senate	received in Senate
2017-02-22	House	passed 58-40 with floor amendments (1) (3) and (4)
2017-02-22	House	floor amendment (2) defeated
2017-02-22	House	3rd reading
2017-02-21	House	floor amendments (2) and (3) and (4) filed
2017-02-21	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017
2017-02-17	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-02-16	House	floor amendment (1) filed
2017-02-16	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2017-02-15	House	posted in committee
2017-02-14	House	to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
2017-02-10	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB296.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB296/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB296/HFA1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB296/HFA2.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB296/HFA3.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB296/HFA4.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB296/vote_history.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB296/LM.pdf