HB0224 • 2013

State miners' hospital-eligibility.

AN ACT relating to the state miners' hospital; limiting eligibility for services through the state miners' hospital; amending definitions; and providing for an effective date.

Healthcare

Did Not Pass

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Sponsor: Representative Miller
Last action: 2013-02-22
Official status: inactive
Effective date: Not listed

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Amendments

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HB0224HW001

Committee of the Whole • HARVEY

Adopted

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HB0224HW002

Committee of the Whole • MILLER

Adopted

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HB0224HS001

Standing Committee • H10

Adopted

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Bill History

2013-02-22 Senate
S Placed on General File; Did Not Consider in COW
2013-02-15 Senate
S Placed on General File
2013-02-15 Senate
S10 Recommended Do Pass
2013-02-07 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S10
2013-02-07 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2013-02-06 House
H Passed 3rd Reading
2013-02-05 House
H Passed 2nd Reading
2013-02-04 House
H Passed CoW
2013-02-04 House
Amendment Adopted
2013-02-04 House
Amendment Adopted
2013-02-04 House
H Amendments Adopted
2013-02-04 House
Amendment Adopted
2013-01-31 House
H Placed on General File
2013-01-31 House
H10 Recommended Amend and Do Pass
2013-01-24 House
H Introduced and Referred to H10
2013-01-23 House
H Received for Introduction
2013-01-22 LSO
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WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0575.E1

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0224

State miners' hospital-eligibility.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Miller and Baker and Senator(s) Bebout, Cooper and Hastert

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
the state miners' hospital; limiting eligibility for services through the state miners' hospital;
providing for rulemaking;
amending definitions;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.
W.S. 30
‑
6
‑
102(b)(i), (e)(i) and (ii)
is
amended to read:

30
‑
6
‑
102.

Account created; expenditures; report.

(b)

The board shall:

(i)

Serve disabled or incapacitated miners in this state with
emphasis on
pulmonary/respiratory, hearing
loss, cardiac and musculoskeletal

and other
conditions
,

of miners
as defined by rule and regulation of the board,

due to labor in the mining industry

for expenses
which are not otherwise
covered by public or private insurance or other public health care program
;

(e)

As used in this section:

(i)

"
Coal or other
M
ine" means an area of land from which minerals are extracted and processed in nonliquid form or, if in liquid form, through an in situ leach process;

(ii)

"Miner" means a resident of Wyoming who has worked in a mine in this state or a contiguous state who is or was employed

full-time in a mining capacity
at a
coal or other
mine or at a processing or conversion facility contiguous to the mine and dependent upon the output of that mine as feedstock
. "
Miner" shall include the operator of the mine or plant if the operator works on a continuing or irregular basis
;

and the mine is:

(A)

Under the jurisdiction of the state mine inspector or the mines safety health administration; or

(B)

An in situ leach process mine
.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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