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Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 1 and 2 and adding new sections designated sections 1 and 2, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:
“Section 1. Chapter 616C of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. If a claimant or a dependent of a claimant is entitled to receive compensation pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS for a permanent total disability caused by an industrial injury or a disablement from an occupational disease that occurs on or after January 1, 2004, the claimant or dependent is entitled to an annual increase in that compensation in the amount of 2.3 percent. The compensation must be increased pursuant to this section:
(a) On January 1 of the year immediately after the year in which the claimant or dependent becomes entitled to receive that compensation; and
(b) On January 1 of each successive year after the year specified in paragraph (a) in which the claimant or dependent is entitled to receive that compensation.
2. Any increase in compensation provided pursuant to this section is in addition to any increase in compensation to which a claimant or a dependent of a claimant is otherwise entitled by law.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on January 1, 2004.”.
Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:
“AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring an annual increase in the amount of compensation that a claimant or a dependent of a claimant is entitled to receive for a permanent total disability under industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”.
Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows: