(a) (1) (A) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall collect a tax from every public employer providing workers' compensation coverage to its employees at a rate to be determined as provided by § 11-9-306 but not to exceed three percent (3%) of the written manual premium which an insurance carrier would have to pay under § 11-9-303 if the public employer were insured by a carrier.
(B) Upon the final payment of the liabilities of the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund under § 11-9-502, the tax rate under this section shall not exceed one and five-tenths percent (1.5%).
(2)
(A) The commission shall tabulate and collect the tax to be collected from entities whose workers' compensation claims are administered by the Public Employee Claims Division.
(B) In tabulating the manual premium, a public employer whose workers' compensation claims are administered by the division shall use the average compensation rate for this state as promulgated by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. for the tax year in question.
(3) The tax collected shall be deposited in and paid to the commission from the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund and miscellaneous revolving funds.
(b)
(1) In the event that any public employer whose workers' compensation claims are administered by the division fails to cooperate in furnishing information upon which the tax will be computed or fails to pay the tax within thirty (30) days of the date provided in § 11-9-306, the commission shall notify the Director of the Public Employee Claims Division of the failure, and the commission shall decertify the public employer from participation in the state's workers' compensation program.
(2) In the event of decertification, the public employer shall obtain its employer's workers' compensation liability coverage from the private market and shall not be entitled to participate in the state's workers' compensation program for a period of one (1) year thereafter.
(c) The procedure for decertification shall be the same as for the revocation or termination of the self-insurer privilege.
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