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36-29A-I Compensation for personal injuries of state employees.
The Director of Finance
shall have the authority to implement a program to provide compensation for
employees of the state and its agencies, departments, boards or commissions
who suffer personal injury as a result of accidents arising out of and in
the course of their state employment, under such terms and conditions as the
Director of Finance shall determine. The said program will be administered
by the Division of Risk Management of the Department of Finance, and will
take effect on October I, 1994.
(Acts
1994,
No. 94-680, p. 1308,
§1.)
36-29A-2 Costs.
The costs of the program
and its administration shall be paid from the funds appropriated for the
operation of the several state departments, agencies, boards and
commissions, to which the Director of Finance may apportion the costs.
Medical costs may be managed by cooperative agreement with the State
Employees' Insurance Board.
(Acts
1994,
No. 94-680, p. 1308,
§2.)
36-29A-3 Employee Injury Compensation Trust Fund.
There is hereby
established a separate special trust fund in the State Treasury to be known
as the Employee Injury Compensation Trust Fund. All receipts collected under
the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in this fund and used only
to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Any funds unspent and
unencumbered at the end of each fiscal year shall not revel:t to any other
fund in the State Treasury but shall be carried forward to the succeeding
fiscal year. All funds in the Employee Injury Compensation Trust Fund may be
invested and reinvested by the Director of Finance, through the Division of
Risk Management, under the same terms as apply to the State Insurance Fund.
There is hereby appropriated from the Employee Injury Compensation Trust
Fund such amounts as are necessary to pay claims, benefits, administrative
costs, and all other costs of the program.
(Acts
1994,
No. 94-680, p. 1308,
§3.)
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