The California Legislature still has a day of work left this year, but legislators already sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill to require contractors to report the workers’ compensation classifications on their workers’ comp policies to the Contractors State Licensing Board. If enacted, the bill would require the CSLB to publish on its website the …
The Assembly Appropriations Committee reviewed 178 fiscal bills last week, including four impacting the workers’ comp system. Of the four workers’ comp bills, one cleared the Committee, and three others were parked in the Committee’s Suspense File for an up or down vote later this month. Clearing the Committee was SB 636 by Sen. Dave …
The California Legislature is on its annual summer recess, but before legislators left Sacramento for their home districts, they advanced nearly a dozen workers’ comp bills before a key deadline. Under legislative rules, bills had to clear the policy committee of the other house to still be considered this year without a rule waiver. The …
The author of SB 636 made good on his word and amended out a provision that would have created a “duty of care” for physicians performing utilization review services for private employers in California. The bill still would require these physicians to be licensed in California, but new amendments would give employers a year to …
The California legislature passed a critical deadline requiring bills to advance out of their houses of origin by June 2nd or be held over until next year. Insiders say a greater percentage of bills cleared that hurdle this year compared to the historical norm. They say it has everything to do with the total control …
A handful of workers’ comp-related bills had already passed out of their houses of origin, but the majority faced a do-or-die deadline last week to clear the Assembly and Senate fiscal committees. The pending workers’ comp bills cleared the fiscal review, while some are advancing in amended form. Moving ahead of the deadline were two …
A bill allowing local city and district attorneys to pursue civil and criminal prosecutions against employers for labor law violations is being drastically narrowed in scope. Assemblyman Brian Maienschein (D-San Diego) announced during AB 594’s first hearing that he is eliminating workers’ compensation and workplace safety and health (Cal/OSHA) from the bill’s scope. “We will …
The Assembly Business and Professions Committee passed AB 336 by Assemblyman Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) on a unanimous vote (see photo). As amended in the hearing, the bill would require contractors to disclose to the Contractors State Licensing Board (CSLB) the construction class codes specified on its workers’ comp policies. “The only information the public can …