STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

SENATE BILL 771	By:	Brecheen

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to workers’ compensation; amending 85 O.S. 2001, Section 46, which relates to agreements to pay premiums; making language gender neutral; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     85 O.S. 2001, Section 46, is amended to read as follows:
Section 46.  No agreement by any employee to pay any portion of the premium paid by his or her employer to the cost of mutual insurance or other insurance, maintained for or carried for the purpose of providing compensation as herein required, shall be valid, and any employer who makes a deduction for such purpose from the wages or salary or of any employee entitled to the benefits of this act the Workers' Compensation Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

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