WORKERS COMPENSATION: Provides relative to the collection of workers' compensation premiums (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
HB 280 requires insurers to provide written notice within 90 days of completing a workers' compensation premium audit before collecting past-due premiums from employers. It prohibits insurers from modifying audit results more than three years after a policy ends, except for cases involving fraud, misrepresentation, or disputed audits. Employers who overpaid premiums may receive refunds if audits confirm excess payments. Self-insured employers are excluded from these requirements.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jul 2025
Introduced Apr 2, 2025
Signed Jul 1, 2025
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What changed between versions
HB280 Original
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HB280 Act 490
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MINOR
This bill converts a draft proposal into an official enacted law by adding signatures and removing procedural notes. The substantive legal text regarding workers' compensation audit rules and premium refunds remains unchanged, with only minor formatting corrections applied to the line numbers and section headers.
Scope change
The bill's scope and applicability are unchanged; it only formalizes the transition from a draft bill to an enacted act.
TECHNICAL
The document header was updated to reflect the bill's official status as 'ENROLLED' and 'ACT No. 490' instead of 'ORIGINAL'.
Procedural notes, including the digest, abstract, and legislative service markings, were removed as they are not part of the final law.
Minor text corrections were made to align line numbers and section labels (e.g., changing 'C.' to 'C.' and 'D.' to 'D.') to match the final enrolled format.
Floor votes · Senate Jun 8, 2025 · House May 5, 2025
How they voted
25–11
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
Jun 8, 2025
D
Democratic11
100% Nay
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Jun 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 27, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
upper
May 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 75, nays 22. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (8-3).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Apr 2, 2025
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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