The California Legislature is in the second half of its 2024 session with active bills advancing to the second house for committee review. The active workers’ comp bills include provisions to expand temporary disability and 4850 benefits, establish a heat-illness presumption for farmworkers, and order the Contractors State Licensing Board to create a process to …
The Senate and Assembly Appropriation committees reviewed over a thousand bills last week in an up-or-down vote. Five workers’ comp bills on the suspense file were approved, albeit with amendments to a couple. A private sector presumption for heat-related illnesses among farmworkers is still in play. SB 1299 by Sen. Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) cleared …
The Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee passed two bills targeting contractors and the Contractors State Licensing Board. The measures would extend the sunset date for the CSLB as a state entity and would give contractors who do not have employees two more years before they must obtain workers’ comp insurance. The bills would …
California legislators faced an early hurdle to keep their 2024 bills alive and viable. Legislative rules required fiscal bills to clear the policy committees in their house of origin by last Friday. Nonfiscal bills have until this Friday to reach the floor of their house of origin. Which workers’ comp bills made it? Here is …
The Assembly Insurance Committee will hear a bill to give rank-and-file sworn peace officers at the California Department of Insurance a pay raise. The bill would bring the CDI officers’ salaries in line with their counterparts at the state’s Department of Justice. The pay discrepancy between two state government units for the same job has …
Three workers’ comp bills will be reviewed next week by the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee at its hearing. None bode well for California’s beleaguered employers. The measures would create a new presumption for farm workers, expand reimbursements for missed time due to medical visits, and bring back a proposal to extend temporary …
California legislators are setting the stage for the second half of the legislative session by introducing bills to create a single-payer health care system, expand 4850 leave for public safety officers, create a presumption for farmworkers and expand workers’ comp medical benefits for injured workers who have to travel for treatment. Legislators also introduced bills …
Is California’s special fund that provides an extra $5,000 in compensation to qualified injured employees running out of money? The Return-To-Work Supplement Program came within 435 injured workers of spending all of its $120 million allotment during the last fiscal year. Officials say applications are running higher this year. The question now is what will …