Report Title:

Workers' Compensation; Department Examinations

 

Description:

Authorizes payment of the examinations from the special compensation fund.  Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2059.  (HB2387 HD1)

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2387

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 386-80, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§386-80  Examination by impartial physician.  The director of labor and industrial relations may appoint a duly qualified impartial physician to examine the injured employee and to report.  The fees for such examination shall be paid from the special compensation fund or from other funds appropriated by the legislature for the use of the department of labor and industrial relations."

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the special compensation fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for departmentally-ordered examinations by impartial physicians under the workers' compensation law.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2059.