The Senate and Assembly appropriations committees last week completed the dirty work of culling hundreds of bills from the suspense file, including a medical leave bill that promised injured workers time off to seek care for an industrial injury. Other measures applying to the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund and a staffing agency licensing program …
A legislative proposal to create a licensing system for temporary staffing agencies is moving forward, despite opposition, in line with the author’s promise to work with parties to draft a workable definition of the staffing operations covered by the bill. SB 1032 by Sen. Eloise Gomez Reyes (D-San Bernardino) cleared the Senate Labor, Public Employment …
Gov. Gavin Newsom closed out the legislative session with a couple of key vetoes. One of the bills would have created the only workers’ compensation presumption that applies to private sector workplaces, but otherwise gave his approval to a host of workers’ comp measures. Included among the new laws were bills to crack down on …
Gov. Gavin Newsom is working through the stacks of bills legislators passed this session and vetoed a bill aiming to reform the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund (SIBTF) while signing measures to improve the med-legal process and extend a heart presumption to more peace officers. The SIBTF bill promised to cut costs in the runaway …
The California Senate and Assembly rubberstamped the vast majority of the workers’ comp bills introduced this year and sent them on to the other house before last week’s deadline for bills to clear their house of origin. The measures include proposals to expand existing workers’ comp presumptions for first responders and create new ones for …
The Assembly Insurance Committee approved two high-profile measures: one to reform the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund and the other to create a farmworker presumption for heat illnesses (see related items on pages 1 and 4). It advanced several other bills impacting California’s workers’ comp system. The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee advanced …
The Assembly Insurance and the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement committees held their first hearings to review bills this session and advanced measures to expand a workers’ comp cancer presumption and extend 4850 time to more public sector employees. Also advancing was a measure to reform broker licensing requirements and a rehash of a …
Legislators are beginning to add more specifics to spot bills as the legislative session gets underway in earnest. One bill now includes a broad notification provision that employers will have to comply with if it becomes law, while another amended bill carves out a class of workers who would be exempt from California’s ABC test. …