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AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; establishing certain methods which must be used by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to calculate an average monthly prevailing wage; revising provisions to provide for the recalculation of the average monthly prevailing wage of an injured construction worker; requiring the compensation of a construction worker who is injured or disabled or who dies to be based on the greater of the worker's average monthly wage or average monthly prevailing wage; revising provisions governing the payment in a lump sum for a construction worker with a permanent partial disability; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; establishing certain methods which must be used by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to calculate an average monthly prevailing wage; revising provisions to provide for the recalculation of the average monthly prevailing wage of an injured construction worker; requiring the compensation of a construction worker who is injured or disabled or who dies to be based on the greater of the worker's average monthly wage or average monthly prevailing wage; revising provisions governing the payment in a lump sum for a construction worker with a permanent partial disability; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Monday, February 3, 2025
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AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; establishing certain methods which must be used by the Administrator of the Div
Existing law establishes the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act and the Nevada Occupational Diseases Act, which provide for the payment of compensation to employees who are injured or disabled or who die as a result of an occupational injury or occupational disease. (Chapters 616A-616D and 617 of NRS) Existing law provides that compensation for permanent total disability, temporary total disability, permanent partial disability and death is based on a calculation of the average monthly wage of the injured employee. (NRS 616C.440, 616C.475, 616C.490, 616C.505) The Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry is required to provide by regulation for a method of determining average monthly wage, to include, if possible, historical wages earned by the injured employee. (NRS 616C.420) Sections 7-9 and 11 of this bill instead require that, in the case of an injured employee who is a construction worker, compensation be based on the greater of the employee's average monthly wage or average monthly prevailing wage. Section 5 of this bill requires the Administrator to provide by regulation for a method of determining average monthly prevailing wage based, if possible, on the historical number of hours worked as a construction worker by an injured construction worker who is a skilled mechanic, skilled worker, semiskilled mechanic, semiskilled worker or unskilled worker and the prevailing wage that is applicable to public works for th
NELIS exhibits (4 on file)
Opposition (3)
- Anahit Baghshetsyan — Nevada Policy (Testimony)
- Tommy Ferraro — the Nevada Homebuilders Association (NVHBA) (Testimony)
- Jaron Hildebrand — the Nevada Self-Insurers Association (Testimony)
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