2008 Bill Tracking Chart

Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers

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HOUSE BILLS

	Bill Number Companion Bill	Author	Short Caption	Position
HB	275	Ligi	Provides relative to rules of evidence and procedure in workers’ compensation hearings	S
HB	288	Little	Requires the nonprevailing party to pay court costs if the suit or the defense to the suit is frivolous	O - monitor
HB	338	Henry	Provides relative to expenses for mileage traveled by an injured employee	S
HB HB	414 575	Kleckley Ponti	Creates a prescription period for relief against preferred provider organizations. HB 414 WITHDRAWN (HB 575 Identical Companion Bill)	S - Amend
HB	471	Smith, P.	Provides relative to securing compensation for employees	O
HB	485	Lorusso	Provides for civil damages	Monitor
HB	514	Ponti	Excludes certain people involved in the construction, maintenance, or manufacturing of any refining or petrochemical facility from drug testing requirements	NP
HB	516	Cortez	Provides relative to coverage of rehabilitative services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language pathology therapy	O
HB	535	Ponti	Provides relative to allocation of death benefits to dependents of injured workers	S
HB	536	Ponti	Provides relative to prescription on claims of reimbursement for medical treatments and services rendered	S
HB	537	Ponti	Provides relative to the situs for workers’ compensation hearings	S
HB	547	Ponti	Provides for the time and procedure for submission of filing fees	S
HB	554	Smith, P.	Provides relative to the discontinuance of business	O
HB	559	Greene	Provides with respect to the workers’ compensation fee schedule	O
HB HB	575 414	Ponti Kleckley	Creates a prescriptive period for relief against preferred provider organizations (HB 414 Identical Companion Bill)	S - Amend
HB	649	Morris	Provides for restitution for benefits fraudulently obtained	S
HB	650	Morris	Provides relative to medical examination involving injured employees	S
HB	651	Ponti	Provides relative to the workers’ compensation reimbursement schedule	NP
HB	652	Ponti	Provides relative to penalties for failure to pay health care provider’s fee	NP
HB	685	Honey	Provides relative to actual charge of medical expenses	O
HB	730	Honey	Provides relative to previous injury claims and forfeiture of benefits	O
HB	731	Roy	Defines and provides with respect to nurse case managers	O
HB	795	Roy	Provides that immunity from civil liability under workers’ compensation law shall not extend to situations where an employer removes adequate safeguards	O
HB	796	Honey	Provides relative to subject matter jurisdiction in workers’ compensation claims and disputes	O
HB	807	Honey	Provides relative to release of medical information	O
HB	810	Honey	Requires forfeiture of workers’ compensation benefits in certain circumstances	O
HB	849	Edwards & Roy	Clarifies employer’s intervention, credits, and reimbursement in third-party suits and recovery	O
HB SB	860 622	Honey Murray	Provides relative to defense attorney fees (SB 622 – Very Similar)	O
HB	865	Honey	Provides for a limitation on the reimbursement of second medical opinions	O
HB	890	Honey	Requires employers to make reasonable, good faith efforts to return an injured employee to work prior to assisting the employee in obtaining other employment	O
HB	892	Honey	Relative to prescriptive periods	O
HB	893	Honey	Changes the wage calculation for certain disability benefits	O
HB	949	Edwards & Roy	Provides for the satisfaction of workers’ compensation claims	O
HB	956	Edwards	Provides that immunity from civil liability under workers’ compensation law shall not extend to situations where an employer fails to provide adequate security	O
HB	957	Greene	Provides relative to the nonpayment of judgments	O
HB	969	Honey	Provides that a finding by the Social Security Administration that an employee is entitled to or receiving federal disability insurance benefits shall be prima facie evidence of permanent total disability	O
HB	992	Honey	Provides for a burden of proof for allegations of fraud	O
HB	1070	B. Badon & Montoucet	Provides for the computation of premiums	O
HB	1083	Smith, P.	Enacts the Construction Industry Independent Contractor Act	Monitor
HB	1089	Edwards & Roy	Provides for employer intervention credits	O
HB	1099	Ponti	Relative to the scope and operation of Louisiana’s workers’ compensation system	SS
HB	1103	Williams	Provides with respect to unauthorized aliens	Monitor

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SENATE BILLS

	Bill Number Companion Bill	Author	Short Caption	Position
SB	150	Cravins	Provides for the formation and regulation of domestic captive insurers. (1/1/09)	Monitor
SB	203	Walsworth	Provides an exception to certain drug testing provisions for persons, firms, and corporations engaged in the construction, maintenance, or manufacturing of petrochemical products. (8/15/08)	NP
SB	213	Marionneaux	Constitutional amendment to provide for the appellate jurisdiction of a court of appeal and to provide that appellate review extends only to questions of law. (2/3-CA13s1(A))	O
SB	241	Cravins	Provides relative to insurance coverage for rehabilitative physical therapy. (gov sig)	Monitor
SB	245	Cravins	Provides for the types of insurers and risk bearing entities regulated under the Louisiana Insurance Code. (See Act)	Monitor
SB	276	Kostelka	Allows a workers’ compensation insurer to enter into preferred provider agreements which provide for fees and other payments that deviate from the schedule of payments set forth in the workers’ compensation provisions, and provides for notice by the insurer to the employee of such PPO agreements. (8/15/08)	O
SB	284	Cravins	Defines “employee” for purposes of the group benefits program to include certain retired members of the classified fire and police civil service. (gov sig)	Monitor
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