Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3218

2E Relating to workers compensation; adopting recommendations of the workers
compensation advisory council; expanding the definition of employee to include
personal care assistants and Minnesota responds medical reserve corps
volunteers, defining the independent contractors exclusion to include migrant
workers; increasing temporary total disability payments and time limitations and
the rehabilitation services maximum hourly rate and retraining time limitations;
denying compensation for complementary and alternative health care provider
services and items; modifying the relative value fee schedule and requiring
periodic relative value tables updating; limiting employer liability for out of
state provider treatment and items; clarifying the qualified employer
definition; exempting the commissioner of labor and industry from state
procurement regulation for medical treatment or items purchased for employees;
modifying conditions and requirements for payments made by insurance guaranty
association due to insolvency and requiring certain notifications; clarifying
death and injury reporting requirements; requiring the commissioner to determine
the most efficient manner of audit; permitting workers compensation
identification number substitution for social security number; allowing agency
electronic filings; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes;
repealing the workers compensation certification for federal tax credit and
certain expenses and rulemaking requirements
(Ch. 250, 2008)