To Senate Committee on Business, Transportation, And Economic Development

Bill H.B. 2157

This bill would require an applicant for a landscape contracting business license that is a nonexempt independent contractor to provide workers’ compensation insurance coverage for employees.  It also would require an applicant for a landscape contracting business license that is an exempt independent contractor and enters into a contract with a worker leasing company or temporary service provider to verify that employees supplied to business by the leasing company or service provider are covered by workers’ compensation insurance.

It would also require landscape contracting business that is an exempt independent contractor to maintain in effect workers’ compensation insurance coverage for the landscape contracting business, and would require a landscape contracting business that is an exempt independent contractor and enters into a contract with a worker leasing company or temporary service provider to verify that workers’ compensation insurance is maintained in effect for workers supplied to the business by leasing company or service provider.

For purposes of the bill:

A “worker leasing company” is defined as a person who provides workers, by contract and for a fee, to work for a client but does not include a person who provides workers to a client on a temporary basis.A “temporary service provider” is defined as a person who provides workers, by contract and for a fee, to a client on a temporary basis.

Failure to comply would result in civil penalties.  The State Landscape Contractors Board may also suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew the license of a landscape construction professional or landscape contracting business for failure to comply.

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