SF 349: Relating to workers’ compensation

What it does

This bill relates to workers’ compensation by reversing some of the changes to the Code that were made with the passage of House File 518 in 2017.26(1), concerning limitations of actions, to remove definitions of “date of the occurrence of the injury” to mean the date the employee knew or should have known that the injury was work-related.34(2) by striking paragraph “n”, which stated: “For the loss of a shoulder, weekly compensation during four hundred weeks”.34(2)(a)-(u), to remove a provision that a reduction in the employee’s earning capacity caused by a disability must take into account the employee’s permanent partial disability and the number of years in the future it was reasonably anticipated the employee would work at the time of the injury.

Senate subcommittee · named February 25, 2019

• Sen. Michael Breitbach (R)
• Sen. Tony Bisignano (D) · tony.bisignano@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Jake Chapman (R)

Lobbying · 4 for, 2 against

For: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN); IBEW Iowa State Conference; Iowa State Education Association; Plumbers and Steam Fitters Local 33

Against: Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB /IA)

In plain words

1. February 21, 2019Filed in the Senate and sent to the Commerce committee
2. February 25, 2019Senate subcommittee named: Breitbach, Bisignano and Chapman