CHAPTER NUMBER: 238
File Code: Workers' Compensation
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Brinkley
- Entitled:
-
Workers' Compensation - Independent Contractors Receiving
Compensation From Farmers for Service - Not Covered Employees
Providing that an individual, other than a migrant farm worker, who
receives compensation from a farmer for a service is not a covered
employee if the individual customarily engages in an independent
business occupation of the same nature as that of the service
performed, is free from control over the individual's performance of
the service, provides the individual's own materials and tools, and
the farmer is not required to withhold certain taxes from the
compensation paid to the individual.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Economic Matters
- Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 2/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/1
- Third Reading Passed (134-0)
- 3/24
- Returned Passed
- 4/30
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 238
Senate Action
- 3/4
- First Reading Finance
- 3/6
- Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/20
- Favorable Report by Finance
- 3/21
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/25
- Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- WORKERS' COMPENSATION
- WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE, OVERTIME
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Labor and Employment
- (
9-210
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 283754/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 28, 1996 at: 10:19
Status: Adopted