1E Relating to workers compensation; modifying the compensation schedule, the rehabilitation review panel and medical services review board memberships; allowing rehabilitation review panel and medical services review board electronic meetings under certain conditions; exempting employers and insurers from employee notification of certain reduced payment charges; requiring medical bills to be submitted in a standard electronic transaction format; requiring self-insured employers and insurers to retain certain data; prohibiting physician examination of injured employees in hotels or motels; prohibiting employer or insurer offset on benefit overpayments upon penalty awarded to employees for late payment or underpayment; allowing social security number data sharing; expanding uninsured and self-insured employer penalties to include employee expenses and attorney fees; modifying records from other state agencies treatment; clarifying the time limitation requirement for department of labor and industry notification of employee fatality or certain hospitalization; specifying a time limit for hearing on petitions; modifying testimonial subpoena prohibition of the rehabilitation review panel and medical services board to include dispute certification or decline of dispute certification; repealing the workers compensation continuing education for judges
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