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HB1751: relative to penalties for failure to have workers' compensation coverage.
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Sponsors
- William Infantine House · Hills 13
- Maureen Mooney House · Hills 19
- Holden House · Hills 7
- Margaret Hassan Senate · Dist 23
- Peter Bragdon Senate · Dist 11
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HB 1751 – AS INTRODUCED
2006 SESSION
06-3042
06/04
HOUSE BILL 1751
AN ACT relative to penalties for failure to have workers’ compensation coverage.
ANALYSIS
This bill allows the commissioner of labor to assess a civil penalty for each day an employer does not have workers’ compensation coverage.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
06-3042
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to penalties for failure to have workers’ compensation coverage.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Liability of Employer Failing to Comply; Penalty Assessment Period Changed. Amend RSA 281-A:7, I to read as follows:
I. An employer subject to this chapter who fails without sufficient cause as determined by the commissioner to comply with the provisions of RSA 281-A:5 by not securing payment of compensation shall be assessed a civil penalty of up to $2,500; in addition, such an employer shall be assessed a civil penalty of $100 per employee for each day of noncompliance [beginning on the date of written notification by the commissioner]. An insurance carrier which insures an employer and fails to file with the commissioner a notice of coverage within a reasonable period of time as prescribed by rule shall be assessed a civil penalty of $10 for each day of noncompliance beginning on the date of the commissioner's written notification to the carrier. The commissioner shall deposit all moneys collected under this section with the state treasurer.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2007.