Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb78%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=78
Timestamp: 2018-01-24 09:53:28
Document Index: 706336839

Matched Legal Cases: ['§23', '§23', '§23', '§33', '§23', '§23', '§23', '§33']

(By Senators Unger and Jenkins)
A BILL to amend and reenact §23-2-1 and §23-2-1b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §23-2C-10 of said code; and to amend and reenact §33-2-21a of said code, all relating to workers’ compensation programs of state government entities and their employees; defining participants and exceptions thereto; including the West Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol in such coverage; designating the Insurance Commissioner to manage workers’ compensation risks of state entities; creating a purchasing exemption for the program; authorizing commissioner to assess fees; creating a fund in State Treasury; authorizing investment of funds; permitting loan from Insurance Commissioner’s administrative fund to the state entities’ workers’ compensation program fund and repayment to the administrative fund; allowing coverage under assigned risk plan; and authorizing Insurance Commissioner to propose legislative rules and to adopt emergency rules.
That §23-2-1 and §23-2-1b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; that §23-2C-10 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §33-2-21a of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(1) “Discretionary participant” means the Parkways Authority, offices of the State Auditor, the State Treasurer, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Department of Agriculture, the state Senate and House of Delegates or their related entities, the Supreme Court of Appeals, the State Police and any other spending unit of the state that is required by section twelve, article two, chapter eleven-b of this code to provide a detailed expenditure schedule to the Secretary of Revenue in his or her capacity as Director of the Budget or the West Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol: Provided, That the term “discretionary participant” does not include any executive state entity other than the State Police and the Parkways Authority, any county board of education, any other county entity or its instrumentality or any municipality or its instrumentality.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the commissioner has sole responsibility for managing the workers' compensation risks of all executive state entities and for supervising and controlling the workers’ compensation programs for such entities: Provided, That any discretionary participant may participate in the program upon application to the commissioner under the same terms and conditions as are applicable to executive state entities: Provided, however, That the commissioner may remove any such entity from the program for noncompliance with any conditions of participation: Provided further, That a discretionary participant is, in accordance with rules governing the program, permitted to withdraw from continued participation in the program.
(c) The commissioner may assess such fees or surcharges on participants in the program as he or she determines necessary to manage the workers’ compensation risks of those participants. All premiums, fees and surcharges shall be established in accordance with generally acceptable standards applicable to Workers Compensation coverage as to each participant and as to all participants in the aggregate. The commissioner shall establish criteria for assessments of premiums, fees and surcharges designed to provide the most cost efficient coverage for all participants.