BILL NUMBER: AB 2008	CHAPTERED  08/28/02

	CHAPTER  296
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 28, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 28, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Correa
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bogh, Briggs, Cardoza, Cox,
Firebaugh, Kehoe, Longville, Maddox, Matthews, Negrete McLeod,
Pavley, Runner, Steinberg, Strickland, Washington, Wyland, and Wyman)

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2002

   An act to amend Section 4703.6 of the Labor Code, relating to
workers' compensation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2008, Correa.  Workers' compensation:  death benefits.
   Existing law provides for the payment of death benefits to the
dependents of an injured employee who has died.  Existing law
provides that in the case of totally dependent children, the death
benefits are payable until the youngest child attains the age of 18
years.  Existing law also provides for the payment of those death
benefits in the case of a totally dependent child of a local safety
member or a patrol member, as defined, if the member was killed in
the line of duty before January 1, 1990, and the child is otherwise
entitled to the benefits.
   This bill would extend those death benefits to the totally
dependent child of a specified safety member or a safety member
subject to any public retirement system, and to a defined patrol
member.  The bill would also provide that the payment of death
benefits would apply retroactively.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 4703.6 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   4703.6.  The provisions of Section 4703.5 shall also apply to a
totally dependent minor child of a local safety member as defined in
Article 4 (commencing with Section 20420) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of
Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code, or a safety member as
defined in Section 31469.3 of the Government Code, other than a
member performing duties related to juvenile hall group counseling
and group supervision, or a safety member subject to any public
retirement system, or a patrol member as defined in Section 20390 of
the Government Code, if that member was killed in the line of duty
prior to January 1, 1990, and the totally dependent minor child is
otherwise entitled to benefits under Section 4703.5.
  SEC. 2.  The provisions of this act shall apply retroactively to
January 1, 2002.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide death benefits to the dependent minor children
of certain local safety members and patrol members as soon as
possible, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.