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Committee Passes TD Expansion, Ag Worker Protection Bills
04/12/2024
Members of a California Senate committee passed bills that would in some instances make temporary disability benefits available after an injury becomes permanent and stationary and create a presumption that heat-related injuries are compensable for agricultural workers under certain circumstances
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Senate Committee Hears Comp Bills Today
04/10/2024
permanent disability benefits.
Finally SB 1299 by Sen. Dave Cortese D-Campbell would create a presumption that a farmworker's heat-related injury arose out of employment if the employer failed to comply with heat illness prevention standards.
The bill would also create the Farmworker Climate
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Amended Bill Would Tap Revolving Fund to Pay for Heat Injury Presumption
03/26/2024
A one-time transfer of 5 million from the Workers Compensation Administration Revolving Fund would be used to establish an account to cover administrative costs associated with a proposed heat injury presumption for California farmworkers under a recently amended bill.
Sen. Dave Cortese D
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Carryover PTSD Presumption Bill Amended
01/05/2024
A bill to create a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable for emergency medical technicians in California was amended to revise dates because the measure was carried over from the 2023 session.
Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez D-Pomona amended Assembly Bill 597
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Newsom Signs Contractor, PTSD Bills; Vetoes Presumptions, TD Extension for Treatment Disputes
10/11/2023
Sunday signed SB 623 by Sen John Laird D-Santa Cruz which would postpone the statutory sunsetting of the presumption that PTSD is an occupational condition for some first responders until Jan. 1 2029. The PTSD presumption lawmakers enacted in 2019 was scheduled to sunset Jan. 1 2025.
The bill
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First Responder Benefit Bills Heading to Governor
09/15/2023
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The bill would add state game wardens and park rangers to the list of workers eligible for the presumption that skin cancer arose out of employment.
The Assembly passed the amended bill 80-0 on Tuesday.
The Assembly on Wednesday voted 80-0 to concur in amendments to AB 621.
The bill by
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Bill to Extend TD for Medical Dispute Resolution Heads to Governor
09/14/2023
gave their final approval to a bill that would expand and extend a post-traumatic stress disorder presumption and another measure from a package of bills addressing first responder presumptions.
The Assembly voted 63-13 to concur in amendments that Assemblymember Liz Ortega D-Hayward made to AB
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Lawmakers Pass TD Duration, Presumption Bills
09/13/2023
stress disorder and exposure to biochemical substances would be presumed to arise out of employment for these workers.
The bill would also make San Diego boating safety officers eligible for the presumption that skin cancer is an occupational condition.
Weber recently amended the bill to avoid
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Amended Bill Would Cap TD Extension at 90 Days for Successful IMR Challenge
09/06/2023
Services Veterans Affairs and Military departments to the list of first responders covered by the PTSD presumption. The bill would also add emergency services dispatchers to the PTSD presumption statute and postpone a scheduled sunset of the presumption to Jan. 1 2032 from Jan. 1 2025.
The measures
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Comp Bills on Agenda for Appropriations Hearing
08/28/2023
A bill that would exclude time spent resolving medical treatment disputes from the cap on temporary disability duration is among a handful of work comp bills on the agenda when the California Senate Appropriations Committee meets Friday.
The committee is also scheduled to vote on measures
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