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PA 21-18—SB 907
Labor and Public Employees Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING MI NOR AND TECHNICAL CH ANGES TO THE
WORKERS' COMPENSATIO N ACT
SUMMARY: This act makes various minor and technical changes in the
workers’ compensation statutes. It:
1. retitles the workers’ compensation commissioners as “administrative law
judges” in state statutes and in any public acts from the 2021 legislative
session (§ 1);
2. reduces the frequency with which the workers’ compensation
commission’s advisory board must meet from twice to once each quarter
(among other things, the board helps evaluate the performance of the
administrative law judges and advises on the physicians available to
examine injured workers (§ 2);
3. eliminates a requirement that the commission’s statistical division be
administered by a full-time, salaried director appointed by the Workers’
Compensation Commission’s chairperson (§ 3);
4. eliminates a requirement that the audio recordings of formal hearings
provided to parties be on cassette (§ 4);
5. eliminates obsolete provisions about (a) the transfer of certain cases to the
Second Injury Fund (which has not been allowed since 1995) (§§ 5-7); (b)
a medical panel of occupational lung disease physicians (which has not
met since the 1980s) (§ 8); and (c) the destruction of old workers’
compensation agreements filed in Superior Court (which has been
obsolete since the creation of the Compensation Review Division in 1980
and the subsequent Compensation Review Board) (§ 8);
6. eliminates a provision that placed the Workers’ Compensation
Commission within the Department of Labor for administrative purposes
only (§ 8); and
7. makes technical and conforming changes.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2021