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 …
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 …
Legislative proposals affecting the California workers’ comp industry were trickling in as the deadline for bill introductions neared. Early measures are focusing on public safety officers, brought back the concept of a private sector presumption, and put a target on employer premium fraud. SB 536 by Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) aims to crack down …
The Contractors State Licensing Board’s board of directors approved seeking legislation to reestablish a limited exemption from the requirement to carry workers’ comp coverage for all licensees except those holding a C-39 Roofing classification. The proposed reintroduction of the exemption, which the board previously backed eliminating, will also be accompanied by new large penalties for …
Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a proposal to give the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board a role in overseeing employers’ compliance with California’s workplace health and safety laws. The Governor also rejected measures to boost salaries for California Department of Insurance investigators, another to expand 4850 leave to more public employees, and proposed changes to the California …