Bill Text: NH SB449 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relative to weekly payment of workers' compensation benefits.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-19 - Sen. Prescott Moved Nonconcur with House Amendment 1749h, New Title, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/19/2016; Senate Journal 18 [SB449 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2016-SB449-Amended.html

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SB 449 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

03/10/2016   0850s

11May2016... 1749h

2016 SESSION

16-2840

01/09

 

SENATE BILL 449

 

AN ACT relative to weekly payment of workers' compensation benefits.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Rep. Proulx, Hills. 44

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires weekly payment of workers' compensation benefits  to be made on or before a day of the week designated in advance by the employer or the employer's insurance carrier at the onset of payment of disability.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/10/2016   0850s

11May2016... 1749h 16-2840

01/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT relative to weekly payment of workers' compensation benefits.

 

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

 

1  Workers' Compensation; Memorandum of Payment.  Amend RSA 281-A:40 to read as follows:

281-A:40  Memorandum of Payment.  An employer or the employer's insurance carrier shall make payment of compensation in the amount and manner provided by this chapter.  Weekly payment shall be made on or before a day of the week designated in advance by the employer or the employer's  insurance carrier at the onset of payment of disability.  The employer shall file memoranda of [such] payments with the commissioner in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner under RSA 281-A:60.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.