SB 71-1_ Filed 03/14/2002, 16:02

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

DIGEST FOR ESB 71



Citations Affected: IC 20-8.1-4.

Synopsis: Employment of minors. Conference committee report for ESB 71. Changes the requirements for rest breaks for children who are employees. Provides that a child less than 18 years of age working between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. must be accompanied during those hours by another employee at least 18 years of age if the establishment is open to the public, and provides for civil penalties for violations by the department of labor against a person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation. (This conference committee report deletes: (1) a provision for worker's compensation benefits to an employee who was traveling to or from or engaged in the duties of employment at the time of a terrorist attack and was injured or died as a result of the attack; (2) the reduction of worker's compensation to an employee by 15% for failure to use safety equipment or failure to obey certain rules of the employer; (3) a provision for 8% interest from the date of filing an application for an adjustment of claim concerning the payment of worker's compensation; (4) a provision for changes to benefits due for worker's compensation, including the second injury fund, average weekly wage for a second injury or occupational disease, and disabled from trade compensation; (5) raising the average weekly wage used to compute benefits for permanent partial impairment, temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, and total permanent disability, and benefit levels for degrees of permanent impairment; (6) revision to the maximum compensation under worker's compensation that may be paid for an injury, occupational disease, or death; (7) the establishment of the second injury fund for occupational diseases; (8) raising the unemployment compensation maximum wage credits; (9) the establishment of work sharing unemployment compensation benefits; and (10) the repeal of the one week waiting period for unemployment compensation.)

Effective: Upon passage; July 1, 2002.



CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT

MR. PRESIDENT:
    Your Conference Committee appointed to confer with a like committee from the House upon Engrossed House Amendments to Engrossed Senate Bill No. 71 respectfully reports that said two committees have conferred and agreed as follows to wit:

    that the Senate recede from its dissent from all House amendments and that the Senate now concur in all House amendments to the bill and that the bill be further amended as follows:

    Replace the effective date in SECTION 1 with "[EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]".

SOURCE: Page 6, line 7; (02)CC007101.1.6. -->     Page 6, delete lines 7 through 42, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: ; (02)CC007101.1.4. -->     "SECTION 4. An emergency is declared for this act.".
    Delete pages 7 through 93.
    (Reference is to ESB 71 as reprinted February 26, 2002.)




Conference Committee Report

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Engrossed Senate Bill 71



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igned by:

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    Senator HarrisonRepresentative Weinzapfel
    Chairperson

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    Senator AntichRepresentative Whetstone

    Senate Conferees    House Conferees


CC007101/DI 96
2002