Kansas House Bill 2704 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: Failed on May 23 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-05-23 - House Died in Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Making notification to an injured employee by an employer or insurance carrier of any change to workers compensation benefits discretionary, providing that employees seeking workers compensation benefits waive the patient privilege preventing access to medical information, prohibiting infringement of the employer's right to direct medical treatment, requiring that questions by the director of workers compensation to a healthcare provider for an examination ordered by the director be in writing, providing that partial work weeks be counted as full weeks for purposes of computing average wages and excluding expert witness costs from court costs that may be awarded a claimant.

Making notification to an injured employee by an employer or insurance carrier of any change to workers compensation benefits discretionary, providing that employees seeking workers compensation benefits waive the patient privilege preventing access to medical information, prohibiting infringement of the employer's right to direct medical treatment, requiring that questions by the director of workers compensation to a healthcare provider for an examination ordered by the director be in writing, providing that partial work weeks be counted as full weeks for purposes of computing average wages and excluding expert witness costs from court costs that may be awarded a claimant.

House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-05-23	House	House Died in Committee
2022-03-01	House	House Withdrawn from Committee on Appropriations; Rereferred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
2022-02-23	House	House Withdrawn from Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development; Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2022-02-11	House	House Referred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
2022-02-11	House	House Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/hb2704/
Text	https://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2704_00_0000.pdf
Supplement	https://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/fisc_note_hb2704_00_0000.pdf