Assembly Bill No. 143

Assembly Bill No. 143-Committee on Labor and Management

February 6, 1997
____________

Referred to Committee on Labor and Management

SUMMARY--Requires legislative committee on workers' compensation to contract with private party to conduct study of system for providing compensation for permanent partial disabilities. (BDR S-957)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.

EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring the legislative committee on workers' compensation to contract with a private party to conduct a study of the system in this state for providing to injured employees compensation for permanent partial disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1 1. The legislative committee on workers' compensation created pursuant to NRS 218.5375 shall cause to be conducted a study of the system in this state for providing workers' compensation for permanent partial disabilities.
2. The study must include:
(a) An evaluation of the system for determining the amount of compensation to be paid for permanent partial disabilities.
(b) A comparison of that system and the systems in other states for determining the amount of compensation to be paid for permanent partial disabilities.
(c) An evaluation of the rating system used in this state to determine the extent of an employee's permanent partial disability.
(d) An evaluation of the manner in which rating physicians and chiropractors are selected.
(e) Such other information as the legislative committee on workers' compensation deems appropriate.
Sec. 2 1. The legislative committee on workers' compensation shall, not later than March 1, 1998, enter into a contract with a private person to conduct the study required by section 1 of this act.
2. The legislative committee on workers' compensation shall ensure that a copy of the study is submitted to the director of the legislative counsel bureau for transmittal to the 70th session of the Nevada Legislature.