SLS 15RS-3836 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 218
BY SENATOR BROWN
WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requests the Louisiana Workers' Compensation
Corporation to review and adjust the code and classification of nonskilled home health
workers.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To urge and request the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation review and adjust
3 the code and classification of nonskilled home health workers whose duties are
4 currently being classified the same as the more hazardous duties of skilled home
5 health nurses and nurses aides, whose employment duties are skilled in nature.
6 WHEREAS, in 1991 the legislature established the Louisiana Workers'
7 Compensation Corporation when the legislature declared that "an adequate market for
8 workers' compensation insurance is necessary to the economic welfare of the state and that
9 without such insurance, the orderly growth and development of the state would be severely
10 impeded; that, furthermore, adequate insurance for workers' compensation is necessary to
11 enable employers to satisfy their legal obligation" to provide workers' compensation
12 insurance. (R.S. 23:1391(A)); and
13 WHEREAS, in 1991 the legislature further declared that it "is the purpose of the
14 corporation to provide a residual market for those employers that have in good faith, but
15 without success, sought workers' compensation insurance in the voluntary market of
16 insurance; to provide a competitive market for preferred risk policies as defined herein; and
17 to insure that rates charged are adequate to provide solvency and self-funding of the
18 corporation." (R.S. 23:1391(A)); and
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1 WHEREAS, elderly and special needs persons require home health services that are
2 nonskilled in nature such as light house keeping and cooking; and
3 WHEREAS, workers' compensation companies, including Louisiana's own Louisiana
4 Workers' Compensation Corporation, codes and classifies nonskilled home health workers
5 who provide housekeeping and cooking services, the same code and classification as skilled
6 home health workers such as nurses and nurses aides, even though skilled home health
7 workers' duties are more hazardous in nature.
8 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
9 does hereby urge and request that the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation review
10 and adjust the code and classification of nonskilled home health workers whose duties are
11 currently being classified the same as the more hazardous duties of skilled home health
12 nurses and nurses aides.
13 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
14 Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Carla S. Roberts.
DIGEST
SR 218 Original 2015 Regular Session Brown
Requests that the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation review and adjust the code
and classification of nonskilled home health workers whose duties are currently being
classified the same as the more hazardous duties of skilled home health nurses and nurses
aides.
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