Bill Text: NH HB465 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to workers' compensation for domestic employees.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 01/06/2016 House Journal 4 P. 46 [HB465 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB465-Introduced.html
HB 465 - AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
15-0363
01/04
HOUSE BILL 465
AN ACT relative to workers’ compensation for domestic employees.
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill clarifies the definition of domestic labor for the purpose of workers’ compensation coverage.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0363
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to workers’ compensation for domestic employees.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Workers’ Compensation; Definitions. Amend RSA 281-A:2, V-b(a) to read as follows:
V-b.(a) “Domestic labor” or “domestic services” means the performance of such duties as housekeeping, childcare, gardening, handy person work, and serving as a companion or caregiver for children or others[ who are not physically or mentally infirm].
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.
