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HB 46

70

Security Freeze

Requires a consumer reporting agency to place a security freeze on a consumer's credit report in response to a consumer's request; allows a public office to redact Social Security numbers or federal tax identification numbers from any document made available to the public through the Internet; requires funding grants to local law enforcement for enforcement of identity theft laws; enacts a statute of limitations for criminal and civil actions against identity fraud; relates to safety worker name redaction. Effective date: Varies.

HB 79

171

Workers' Compensation

Amends the law governing the Workers' Compensation Council and employee compensation; specifies that an employer group is considered one employer for purposes of workers' compensation group rating; provides for self-insuring employer assessments; makes an appropriation; specifies the classes of investment for investment of the funds specified in the Workers' Compensation Law; prohibits the Administrator from contracting with outside investment managers for the investment of those funds. Effective date: January 6, 2009.

HB 320

154

Child Restraints

Requires children of a specified age to be secured in a booster seat; makes a violation of the booster seat provisions a secondary traffic offense; allows a court to grant unaccompanied driving privileges one time to a probationary driver's license holder who, because of a moving violation, otherwise would be subject to a restriction that the person be accompanied by the holder's parent or guardian. Varies.

SB 129

132

Damaged Vehicles

Permits local law enforcement agencies and fire departments to remove motor vehicles from the roadway after a motor vehicle accident; provides immunity to local law enforcement agencies and fire personnel for the removal of vehicles from roadways; creates C.O.P.S. license plates; provides that an insurer or subrogee may sell through a licensed motor vehicle auction owner a motor vehicle that comes into its possession through the operation of an insurance contract; extends the Wireless 911 charge. Effective date: December 30, 2008.

SB 323

93

Workers' Compensation

Revises certain coal mine safety requirements, to create the Mine Safety Fund to be used for specified mine safety purposes, to allow the Administrator of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation to transfer a portion of the investment earnings of the Coal-Workers Pneumoconiosis Fund to the Mine Safety Fund; declares an emergency. Effective date: June 11, 2008.

SB 334

97

Workers' Compensation

Prohibits an employee from filing a claim for workers' compensation benefits in this state if the employee has received a decision in another state for the same injury or occupational disease; allows an employer to obtain workers' compensation insurance for claims arising in other states through the Administrator of Workers' Compensation or an insurance company; relates to interstate workers' compensation claims; allows a journalist to access worker's compensation records. Effective date: September 11, 2008.