GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE DRH60261-LD-168  (04/04)

Short Title:     Workers' Comp/Reduce Threshold to One Worker.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative Goodwin.
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to reduce from three to one the threshold number of employees whose employment is within the purview of the workers' compensation act.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 97‑2(1) reads as rewritten:

"(1)      Employment. – The term "employment" includes employment by the State and all political subdivisions thereof, and all public and quasi‑public corporations therein and all private employments in which three one or more employees are regularly employed in the same business or establishment or in which one or more employees are employed in activities which involve the use or presence of radiation, except agriculture and domestic services, unless 10 or more full‑time nonseasonal agricultural workers are regularly employed by the employer and an individual sawmill and logging operator with less than 10 employees, who saws and logs less than 60 days in any six consecutive months and whose principal business is unrelated to sawmilling or logging."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2007, and applies to claims filed on or after that date.