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.
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]".
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Senator HarrisonRepresentative Weinzapfel
Chairperson
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Senator AntichRepresentative Whetstone
Senate Conferees House Conferees