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SF 40 Senate Long Description

Modifying certain workers compensation provisions; requiring the +commissioner of commerce to annually establish the special compensation fund +premium surcharge rate to be used by insurers for policies with a certain +effective date, requiring the rate to be sufficient to satisfy the pro rata +share of assessment obligations attributable to insured employers; modifying +the limit on annual assessments for the workers compensation self insurance +security fund; expanding the definition of personal injury to injury or +disease resulting from vaccines in response to declarations by the federal +secretary of health and human services to address actual or potential health risks+ related to employment for coverage purposes; eliminating the requirement for +insurers and self insured employers to file annual statements with the +commissioner of labor and industry on legal fees and costs incurred; modifying the +definition of paid indemnity losses for special compensation fund purposes and +modifying certain fund payments provisions, requiring the portion of the total +assessment allocated to self insured employers to be based on certain paid +indemnity losses, providing for the purchase of replacement policies and +imposing certain reporting requirements; providing for electronic transmission of +itemized treatment charges to insurers by health care providers; eliminating +the requirements for first report of injury forms to include an employer compensation payment declaration; expanding the authority of +compensation judges to appoint neutral physicians or surgeons to examine injuries; temporarily prohibiting the annual adjustment to the medical fee +conversion factor (mk)