WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to past payments of workers' compensation premiums
HB 200 amends the workers' compensation law to clarify how insurers can collect premiums for past policy periods. The bill specifically allows insurance companies to modify or complete payroll audits more than three years after a policy ends, but only in cases involving fraud, court-ordered reclassifications, or disputes over previous audits. Additionally, the legislation ensures that insurers are not required to return premiums if they discover relevant new information after an audit has already been finished. These changes directly affect insurance providers and businesses that have paid workers' compensation premiums, aiming to provide clearer rules for handling late premium collections and audit adjustments.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 26, 2024
Signed Jun 25, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 30, 2024 · House Apr 24, 2024
How they voted
26–11
Passed
Total votes 37
May 30, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Nay
R
Republican25
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 31, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 30, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 16, 2024
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 15, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 76, nays 19. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (9-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Michael Melerine
RRepublican
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