HB 1307-1_ Filed 01/19/2006, 11:30

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COMMITTEE REPORT

            
                                                        YES:

7

                                                        NO:
5

MR. SPEAKER:

    Your Committee on       Employment and Labor     , to which was referred       House Bill 1307     , has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:

SOURCE: Page 2, line 32; (06)CR130701.2. -->     Page 2, line 32, after "its" insert: " regular or routine schedule of attorney's fees applicable to all claims filed on or after September 1, 2006, except as provided in subsection (e), to reflect the following attorney's fees:
        (1) A minimum of two hundred dollars ($200).
        (2) Twenty percent (20%) of the first fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of recovery.
        (3) Fifteen percent (15%) of the recovery in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
        (4) Ten percent (10%) of the value of:
            (A) unpaid medical expenses;
            (B) out-of- pocket medical expenses; or
            (C) future medical expenses;
        subject to the approval of the workers' compensation board of Indiana.
    (e) The board maintains continuing jurisdiction over all

attorney's fees in cases before the board and may order a different attorney's fee or allowance in a particular case.".
    Page 2, delete lines 33 through 42.
    Page 3, delete lines 1 through 3.
    (Reference is to HB 1307 as introduced.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass.

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Representative Torr


CR130701/DI 96    2006