3E Relating to workers compensation; adopting recommendations of the workers' compensation advisory council; requiring compensation judges to exclusively conduct administrative conferences and workers' compensation proceedings in the office of administrative hearings jurisdiction; requiring compensation judges to be state employees; requiring formal de novo hearings to be held before certain compensation judges; modifying the settlement and pretrial conferences, summary by decision procedure; increasing the amount available for remodeling or alteration projects and specifying certain certification requirements; increasing the amount for employee remodeling of residence personal injury; making permissive the chief administrative law judge assignment of workers' compensation cases to compensation judges with a block system; authorizing replacement of the average wholesale price standard with the wholesale acquisition cost standard; appropriating money for implementing a case management system and electronic filing system at the office of administrative hearings; revisor instructions
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