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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 218
BY SENATOR BROWN
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request 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, whose employment duties are skilled in nature.
WHEREAS, in 1991 the legislature established the Louisiana Workers'
Compensation Corporation when the legislature declared that "an adequate market for
workers' compensation insurance is necessary to the economic welfare of the state and that
without such insurance, the orderly growth and development of the state would be severely
impeded; that, furthermore, adequate insurance for workers' compensation is necessary to
enable employers to satisfy their legal obligation" to provide workers' compensation
insurance. (R.S. 23:1391(A)); and
WHEREAS, in 1991 the legislature further declared that it "is the purpose of the
corporation to provide a residual market for those employers that have in good faith, but
without success, sought workers' compensation insurance in the voluntary market of
insurance; to provide a competitive market for preferred risk policies as defined herein; and
to insure that rates charged are adequate to provide solvency and self-funding of the
corporation." (R.S. 23:1391(A)); and
WHEREAS, elderly and special needs persons require home health services that are
nonskilled in nature such as light housekeeping and cooking; and
WHEREAS, workers' compensation companies, including Louisiana's own Louisiana
Workers' Compensation Corporation, codes and classifies nonskilled home health workers
who provide housekeeping and cooking services, the same code and classification as skilled
home health workers such as nurses and nurses aides, even though skilled home health
workers' duties are more hazardous in nature.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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