| Measure Title: | RELATING TO INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. |
| Report Title: | Workers' Compensation; Independent Medical Examinations |
| Description: | Requires all examinations conducted during the course of an accepted workers' compensation claim, including those where the employer is dissatisfied with the progress of the case and where major elective surgery is contemplated, except examinations requested by an employer pursuant to an investigation of a claim before compensability is accepted or ordered by the department, the appeals board, or appellate court to be performed by a physician selected by mutual agreement of the parties, or if no agreement, by a physician appointed by the director of the department of labor and industrial relations. (SD1) |
| Package: | None |
| Companion: | |
| Introducer(s): | KANNO |
| Current Referral: | LBR, CPH |
| Date | Status Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 1/21/2003 | S | Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| 1/27/2003 | S | Referred to LBR, CPH. |
| 2/7/2003 | S | Bill scheduled to be heard by LBR on 02-10-03 at 1:15 pm in conference room 225. |
| 2/10/2003 | S | The committee(s) on LBR recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. |
| 2/10/2003 | S | The votes in LBR were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kanno, Ihara, Kawamoto, Taniguchi; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Slom; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Sakamoto. |
| 2/14/2003 | S | Reported from LBR (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 490) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to CPH. Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPH. |
| 2/19/2003 | S | Bill scheduled to be heard by CPH on 02-25-03 at 9:00 am in conference room 016. |
| 2/25/2003 | S | The committee on CPH deferred the measure until 02-28-03 at 9:00 am in conference room 016. |
| 2/28/2003 | S | The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| 8/21/2003 | D | Carried over to 2004 Regular Session. |
$ = Appropriation measure
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment