SB 0844 Employer & Employee Work. Comp. Coverages & Exemptions
Sponsor:FLOTRON
LR Number:S3000.02I Fiscal Note:3000-02
Committee:Labor and Industrial Relations
Last Action:04/10/96 - Defeated on S Third Reading - Consent
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Effective Date:August 28, 1996
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Current Bill Summary

SB 844 - This act reorganizes the Workers' Compensation Law as it relates to employer and employee coverages and exemptions.

Currently, an employer, for the purposes Workers' Compensation Law, includes every person, partnership, association, corporation, trustee, receiver, and the representative of a deceased employer, with 5 more employees (or with 1 or more employees if the employer is in the construction industry).

Under this act, sole proprietors, partners or copartners comprising a partnership and limited liability companies also would be deemed employers.

Currently, certain employers and employees are exempt from Workers' Compensation Law, but may opt in, including:

(1) Owner & operator of leased/contracted motor vehicle with a driver with a commercial driver's license; (2) Farm labor and domestic servants; (3) Employers' family members; (4) Qualified real estate agents; (5) State prison inmates and mental health residents; (6) Tax-exempt organization volunteers; (7) Adjudicators, sports officials or contest workers for interscholastic activities or amateur youth programs; and (8) Family members and salaried officers of a family farm corporation.

Under this act, the following employers and employees are exempt, but may opt in:

(1) Farm labor and domestic servants; (2) State prison inmates and mental health residents; (3) Family members and salaried officers of a family farm corporation; (4) Qualified real estate agents; and (5) Tax-exempt organization volunteers.

Currently, a corporation with 2 or fewer owners who are also the only employees may opt out of the Workers' Compensation Law.

Under this act, the following employers are included under Workers' Compensation Law, but may opt out:

(1) Employer with 4 or less employees, (1 or less employees if construction employer); (2) Owner & operator of leased/contracted motor vehicle with a driver with a commercial driver's license; (3) Limited liability companies; (4) Sole proprietors' family member-employees; and (5) Adjudicators, sports officials or contest workers for interscholastic activities or amateur youth programs.
MARGARET TOALSON