BILL NUMBER: SB 888	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 3822 of the Labor Code, relating to
workers' compensation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 888, as introduced, Lieu. Workers' compensation: fraud.
   Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system,
administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of
Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries
sustained in the course of his or her employment.
   Existing law requires the administrative director, on an annual
basis, to provide to every employer, claims adjuster, 3rd-party
administrator, physician, and attorney who participates in the
workers' compensation system, a notice that warns the recipient
against committing workers' compensation fraud. Existing law requires
that the notice specify the penalties that are applied for
committing workers' compensation fraud.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3822 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3822.  The administrative director shall, on an annual basis,
provide to every employer, claims adjuster, third party
administrator, physician, and attorney who participates in the
workers' compensation system, a notice that warns the recipient
against committing workers' compensation fraud. The notice shall
specify  all  the penalties that are applied for committing
workers' compensation fraud. The Fraud Assessment Commission,
established by Section 1872.83 of the Insurance Code, shall provide
the administrative director with all funds necessary to carry out
this section.