Bill Text - SB99 (2019)

Relative to gainful employment and partial disability in workers' compensation.


Revision: May 14, 2019, 1:43 p.m.

SB 99-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

2May2019... 1517h

2019 SESSION

19-0963

01/05

 

SENATE BILL 99-FN

 

AN ACT relative to gainful employment and partial disability in workers' compensation.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16; Rep. Merner, Coos 7; Rep. Soucy, Merr. 16; Rep. Goley, Hills. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies the definition of gainful employment for purposes of workers' compensation.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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01/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to gainful employment and partial disability in workers' compensation.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Workers' Compensation; Definitions.  Amend RSA 281-A:2, X-a to read as follows:

X-a.  "Gainful employment" means employment which reasonably conforms with the employee's age, education, training, temperament and mental and physical capacity to adapt to other forms of similarly remunerative labor than that to which the employee was accustomed.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.

 

LBAO

19-0963

Amended 5/10/19

 

SB 99-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE (AMENDMENT #2019-1517h)

 

AN ACT relative to gainful employment and partial disability in workers' compensation.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [ X ] County               [ X ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2022

FY 2023

   Appropriation

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$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Expenditures

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Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Funding Source:

  [    ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [ X ] Other - Multiple (See Methodology)

 

 

 

 

 

COUNTY:

 

 

 

 

   Revenue

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Expenditures

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

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LOCAL:

 

 

 

 

   Revenue

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Expenditures

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

 

METHODOLOGY:

For the purpose of workers' compensation, this bill clarifies the definition of gainful employment.  The Department of Labor estimates this bill may increase workers' compensation premiums and payment expenditures for state, county, and local governments.  However, the Department estimates the increase will be by an indeterminable amount.  Any increased expenditures under this bill would impact all funds used to pay for workers' compensation premiums or payments.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Labor