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IA SF454
Bill
Status
2/26/2025
Primary Sponsor
Thomas Townsend
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AI Summary
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Requires workers' compensation permanent partial disability determinations to use the most recent annual update to the most recent edition of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, rather than an edition adopted by rule
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Removes the requirement that the workers' compensation commissioner formally adopt the AMA Guides by administrative rule pursuant to Chapter 17A
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Updates standards from the current fifth edition of the AMA Guides (published in 2001) to the 2024 update of the sixth edition
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Prohibits the use of lay testimony or agency expertise in determining loss or percentage of permanent impairment for scheduled member injuries and functional disability cases
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Applies to determinations of permanent impairment occurring on or after the effective date of the Act
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to standards for determination of loss or permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers' compensation and including applicability provisions.
Last Action
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Taylor, and Townsend. S.J. 381.
2/27/2025