H.B. 94
         WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES

House Floor Amendments

Amendment 3 March 4, 2014 8:14 AM



Representative James A. Dunnigan proposes the following amendments:

1.    Page Lines 255 through 267 :    

             255          (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (4)
  and subject to Subsection (9)(c)       , an individual with a disability or designated

             256      representative of the individual with a disability is considered an employer under this chapter
             257      and Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act, of an individual who provides home and
             258      community based services if the individual with a disability or designated representative of the
             259      individual with a disability:
             260          (i) employs the individual to provide home and community based services for five
             261      hours per week or more; and
             262          (ii) pays the individual providing the home and community based services from state or
             263      federal money received by the
{   person   }        the individual with a disability or designated representative of the individual with a disability       to fund home and community based services, including

             264      through a person designated by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with Section 3504,
             265      Internal Revenue Code, as a fiduciary, agent, or other person who has the control, receipt,
             266      custody, or disposal of, or pays the wages of, the individual providing the home and
             267      community based services.
  (c) The state and federal money received by an individual with a disability or designated representative of an individual with a disability shall include the cost of the workers' compensation coverage required by this Subsection (9) in addition to the money necessary to fund the home and community based services that the individual with a disability or family of the individual with a disability is eligible to receive so that the home and community based services are not reduced in order to pay for the workers' compensation coverage required by this Subsection (9).      


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