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 …
The Assembly Insurance Committee passed AB 1209 by Assemblyman Michelle Rodriguez (D-Ontario) over the opposition of two members. The bill proposes an amnesty program for the state’s legal cannabis industry …
Assemblyman Liz Ortega (D-Hayward) introduced amendments to AB 1329 requiring substantial medical evidence before awards are made under the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund. The bill also calls on the Department of Industrial Relations director to develop a list of approved qualified medical evaluators (QMEs) “who have the necessary training and expertise” to provide evaluations …
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. …
Bill hearing season is underway in the state capitol. The Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee will begin reviewing bills this morning, including measures to expand 4850 leave, expand workers’ comp presumptions, and continue certain death benefits for a longer period. The Assembly Insurance Committee set a hearing for next week. The agenda is …
California legislators submitted proposed legislation up to the deadline for introducing bills for the first year of this two-year session. Among the final workers’ comp bills introduced for the year are proposals affecting the state’s legal cannabis industry, expanding financial disclosure requirements, improving contract transparency and cracking down on uninsured employers. Additional “spot bills” are …
Legislators introduced a pair of bills that revive ideas that had been killed off in past sessions. One bill brings back a proposal for a state-run medical provider network (MPN), while the other revives a heat illness presumption for privately employed farmworkers that was vetoed last year. Assemblyman Esmeralda Soria (D-Merced) is carrying AB 1498 …
Assemblyman Michelle Rodriguez (D-Ontario) is carrying a bill to eliminate the requirement that applicants for a broker’s license must have undergone 20 hours of pre-licensing. The 20-hour requirement currently applies to each line of insurance for which a license is sought. The bill would leave intact the requirement that applicants complete 12 hours of study …