BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 1834: Workers' compensation

Simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits.

Summary

Changes the calculation of industrial insurance benefits, including changing the definition of wages to exclude fringe benefits, using 12-month wage averaging, and using a flat 65.5 percent instead of a variable percentage of the worker's wage at injury.
Requires benefit indexing using the Implicit Price Deflator rather than the Consumer Price Index or the state average annual wage.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to simplifying and adding certainty to the calculation of workers' compensation benefits;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

HB 1834 (2025–26) Online services/minors · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor
HB 1834 (2023–24) Reconciliation returns · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1834 (2021–22) Student absences/mental hlth · Enacted · Chapter 31, Laws of 2022
HB 1834 (2019–20) Low-income homeownership · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1834 (2017–18) Campaign finance reporting · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1834 (2015–16) Higher ed facilities use · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1834 (2013–14) Family treatment courts · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1834 (2011–12) Concurrent jurisdiction · Did not pass · died in committee