2005 Idaho Code - 72-501A — REHABILITATION DIVISION -- BUDGET AND EXPENSE -- COMPOSITION AND IMPLEMENTATION

                                  TITLE  72
                      WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED
                        LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
                                  CHAPTER 5
                            INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
    72-501A.  REHABILITATION DIVISION -- BUDGET AND EXPENSE -- COMPOSITION AND
IMPLEMENTATION. (1) In order to assist in reducing the period of temporary
disability resulting from an injury and to aid in restoring the injured
employee to gainful employment with the least possible permanent physical
impairment, the commission shall establish within the commission a
rehabilitation division and adopt a program concerning itself with both
physical and vocational rehabilitation, the latter of which shall include job
placement.
    (2)  The commission is authorized to budget and expend for such
rehabilitation program such funds as may be paid into the industrial
administration fund or rehabilitation account thereof by a special premium tax
provided by law for this purpose.
    (3)  The composition of the rehabilitation division and implementation of
the rehabilitation program shall be in the discretion of the commission with
the counsel, advice, cooperation and expertise of representatives of industry,
labor, sureties and the legal and medical professions as well as institutions,
hospitals and clinics having physical rehabilitation facilities and with the
assistance of the state board for professional-technical education, when such
board is carrying out the duties of chapter 23, title 33, Idaho Code.