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HB0273 • 2009

Duty owed to employees of independent contractors.

AN ACT relating to duties of care; defining the duties of worksite owners; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Gingery
Last action
2009-03-02
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2009-03-02 House

    H Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 4-3(c)

  2. 2009-01-28 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H01; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2009-01-27 House

    H Received for Introduction

  4. 2009-01-26 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2009
STATE OF
WYOMING
09LSO-0501

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0273

Duty owed to employees of independent contractors.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Gingery, Bagby, Meyer and Zwonitzer, Dn. and Senator(s) Ross

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
duties of care; defining the duties of worksite owners;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

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131 is created to read:

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131.

Duties of worksite owner
s
.

(
a
)

An owner of a worksite owes a nondelegable duty of reasonable care to an employee of an independent contractor if the owner retains the right to direct the manner of the independent cont
ractor's performance or assumes
affirmative dut
ies
with respect to safety.
This duty is a question of law that can arise from statute, regulations, contract and common law. Contracts, statutes, regulations or common law which call for an owner to exercise reasonable diligence having regard for the health and safety of workmen or employees create a duty of reasonable care.

(b
)

No contract, rule, regulation
, agreement
or device shall operate to relieve a worksite owner from any
duty established
in subsection (a
) of this section.

(c)

For purposes of this section, "owner of a worksite" shall mean the person who has the right to control the workplace.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2009.

(END)

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