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         <div class="xtend_ce"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A bill for an act<br />
            		
         </div><a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>relating to employment; occupational health and safety; requiring that records be <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>kept of the ethnicity of certain injured, sick, or deceased employees; amending <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 182.663, subdivision 1.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<br />
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         		<a id="bill.0.1.0"></a><a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 182.663, subdivision 1, is amended to read:<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Subdivision 1. <b>Statistics program.</b> In order to further the purposes of this <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>chapter, the commissioner shall develop and maintain an effective program of collection, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>compilation, and analysis of occupational safety and health statistics. Such programs may <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>cover all employments within the scope of this chapter. The commissioner shall compile <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>accurate statistics, including the race and ethnicity of the worker,  on work deaths, injuries <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>and illnesses which shall include all deaths and all disabling, serious, or significant injuries <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>and illnesses, whether or not involving loss of time from work, other than minor injuries <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>requiring only first aid treatment and which do not involve medical treatment, loss of <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>consciousness, restrictions of work or motion, or transfer to another job. Such programs <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>shall be developed so that the state may coordinate and cooperate with a federal data <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>collection and record-keeping program.<br />
         		
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