Bill Text: MI HB5479 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Worker's compensation; administration; liability of various self-insurer funds; establish. Amends 1969 PA 317 (MCL 418.101 - 418.941) by adding sec. 501a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5478'14, HB 5480'14, HB 5483'14
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-16 - Assigned Pa 229'14 With Immediate Effect [HB5479 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB5479-Chaptered.html
Act No. 229
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
June 21, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 27, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 27, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Rep. Graves
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5479
AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 317, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to worker’s disability compensation; to increase the administrative efficiency of the adjudicative processes of the worker’s compensation system; to improve the qualifications of the persons having adjudicative functions within the worker’s compensation system; to prescribe certain powers and duties; to create the board of worker’s compensation magistrates and the worker’s compensation appellate commission; to create certain other boards; to provide certain procedures for the resolution of claims, including mediation and arbitration; to prescribe certain benefits for persons suffering a personal injury under the act; to prescribe certain limitations on obtaining benefits under the act; to create, and provide for the transfer of, certain funds; to prescribe certain fees; to prescribe certain remedies and penalties; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 418.101 to 418.941) by adding section 501a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 501a. (1) The liability of the self-insurers’ security fund under this act for any payment of claims made against a self-insured member of a private employer group self-insurer terminates on January 1, 2020. The PEGSISF is responsible for payment of eligible claims made against the PEGSISF on and after January 1, 2020, and for claims against a private employer group self-insurer for which the self-insurers’ security fund was formerly liable under this act.
(2) If the director determines that a trust established under R 408.43s(2) of the Michigan administrative code is reasonably likely to be insufficient to fulfill the liability for claims made against the self-insured members of a private employer group self-insurer before January 1, 2020, the director may assess all private employer group self-insurers based on the proportion of the total paid losses, as defined in section 551(3)(b), of each private employer group self-insurer paid in the prior year to cover the cost of benefits incurred. An assessment made under this subsection is payable to the trust to satisfy liability for those claims.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 5478.
(b) House Bill No. 5480.
(c) House Bill No. 5483.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
