Reference is to Printer's Date 03/21/18-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by
deleting all after the enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Section 42-17-20 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 42-17-20.
If the employer and the injured employee or his dependents
fail to reach an agreement in regard to compensation under this
title within fourteen days after the employer has knowledge of
the injury or after a death or if they have reached such an
agreement which has been signed and filed with the commission
and compensation has been paid or is due in accordance therewith
and the parties thereto then disagree as to the continuance of
any weekly payment under such agreement, either party may make
application to the commission for a hearing in regard to the
matters at issue and for a ruling thereon. Immediately after
such application has been received the commission shall set a
date for a hearing, which shall be held as soon as practicable,
and shall notify the parties at issue of the time and place of
such hearing. The hearing shall be held in the city or
county district in which the injury occurred,
but no greater than seventy-five miles from the county seat
of the county in which the injury occurred, unless otherwise
agreed to by the parties and authorized by the commission.
These districts are defined as those districts designated by
the commission and in effect as of January 1, 2018."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.