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UTAH STATE SENATE

UTAH STATE CAPITOL COMPLEX * 320 STATE CAPITOL

P.O. BOX 145115 * SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84114-5115 * (801) 538-1035

        January 24, 2008

Mr. President:

    The Business and Labor Committee reports a favorable recommendation on S.B. 58, WORKERS' COMPENSATION RELATED AMENDMENTS, by Senator M. Dmitrich, with the following amendments:


1.    Page 1, Lines 20 through 21 :    

             20      Other Special Clauses:
             21          

{   None   }        This bill coordinates with S.B. 108, Offset of Workers' Compensation and Social Security, to make technical changes.      


2.    Page 4, Lines 112 through 113 :    

             112          [(a)] (i) a child under 18 years of age, [or over] subject to the conditions of Subsections
             113      (1)(b) and (2)
{   (c)   }        (b)       ;


3.    Page 5, Lines 124 through 129 :    

             124          (b) Subsections (1)(a)(i) and (ii) require that:
             125          (i) the deceased employee be
{   :

             126          (A)  
}
the parent of the child; or


                  127          
{   (B)   }        (ii)(A) the deceased employee be       legally bound to support the child; and

                 128          
{   (ii)   }        (B)       the child be living with the deceased employee at the time of the death of         the

                 129          employee.


4.    Page 14, Lines 426 through 427 :    

             426      court all documents and papers and a transcript of all testimony taken in the matter together
             427      with the decision of the commissioner or Appeals Board.
  Section 9. S.B. 58 coordinating with S.B. 108 -- Technical amendments.

If this S.B. 58 and S.B. 108, Offset of Workers' Compensation and Social Security, both pass, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel in preparing the Utah Code database for publication coordinate the bills as follows:
(1) the amendments to Subsection 34A-2-702(5)(b)(i) in this bill supersede the amendments to that subsection in S.B. 108;
(2) the amendments to Subsection 34A-2-702(5)(b)(iii) in S.B. 108 supercede the amendments to that subsection in this bill;
(3) the amendments to Subsections 34A-2-702(5)(b)(iv) and (5)(c)(i) in this bill supersede the amendments to those subsections in S.B. 108;
(4) the amendments to Subsection 34A-2-702(5)(c)(ii) in S.B. 108 supersede the amendments to that subsection in this bill, except that the introductory phrase in Subsection 34A-2-702(5)(c)(ii)(A) is deleted and replaced with the following:
"(ii)(A) In determining the annual income of the surviving spouse after the initial 312-week period, there shall be excluded 50% of a federal Social Security death benefit that the surviving spouse:"; and


(5) the amendments to Subsection 34A-2-702(5)(d) and (e) in this bill supersede the amendments to those subsections in S.B. 108.  

        Respectfully,

        Kevin T. VanTassell
        Committee Chair

Voting: 5-0-2
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