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HB1163: (New Title) relative to the definition of employer for purposes of safety provisions under the workers’ compensation law.
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- Rice House · Merr 12
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COMMERCE, LABOR AND CONSUMER PROTECTION Business and labor
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CHAPTER 134
HB 1163 – FINAL VERSION
17Feb2010… 0309h
2010 SESSION
10-2331
01/10
HOUSE BILL 1163
AN ACT relative to the definition of employer for purposes of safety provisions under the workers’ compensation law.
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill includes railroads as an employer for the purposes of safety provisions under the workers’ compensation law.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17Feb2010… 0309h
10-2331
01/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the definition of employer for purposes of safety provisions under the workers’ compensation law.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
134:1 Workers’ Compensation; Safety Provisions. Amend RSA 281-A:64, I to read as follows:
I. Every employer shall provide employees with safe employment. Safe employment includes but is not limited to furnishing personal protective equipment, safety appliances and safeguards; ensuring that such equipment, appliances, and safeguards are used regularly; and adopting work methods and procedures which will protect the life, health, and safety of the employees. For the purposes of this section, “employer” shall include railroads, even if the employees of such railroads receive compensation for work injuries under federal law rather than RSA 281-A.
134:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 30 days after its passage.
Approved: June 14, 2010
Effective Date: July 14, 2010