AB 1393,
as amended, begin deleteCommittee on Insuranceend delete begin insertPereaend insert. begin deleteWorkers’ compensation: studies. end deletebegin insertSafe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.end insert
The California Safe Drinking Water Act (state act) provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Department of Public Health various duties and responsibilities. Existing law requires the department to conduct research, studies, and demonstration projects relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, to adopt regulations to implement the state act, and to enforce provisions of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
end insertbegin insertThe Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997 establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to provide grants or revolving fund loans for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable suppliers to meet safe drinking water standards. Under that law, the department is responsible for administering the fund.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would transfer the administration of the fund and the grant and loan program to the State Water Resources Control Board.
end insertExisting 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.
end deleteExisting law requires the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation to undertake a specified study examining the causes of the number of insolvencies among workers’ compensation insurers between the calendar years of 1998 and 2008, to be conducted by an independent research organization, and requires the commission and the Department of Industrial Relations, no later than July 1, 2009, to publish the report of the study on its Internet Web site and to inform the Legislature and the Governor of the availability of the report.
end deleteExisting law requires the administrative director to begin a study, on or before July 1, 2003, of medical treatment provided to workers who have sustained industrial injuries and illnesses, and to report and make recommendations, based on the results of the study, to the Legislature, on or before July 1, 2004.
end deleteExisting law requires the administrative director, after consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, to contract with a qualified organization to study the effects of the 2003 and 2004 legislative reforms on workers’ compensation insurance rates, and requires the administrative director to submit the final study on or before January 1, 2006.
end deleteThis bill would repeal these workers’ compensation study requirements.
end deleteVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 116273 is added to the end insertbegin insertHealth and Safety
2Codeend insertbegin insert, to read:end insert
(a) The Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund,
4established in Article 1 (commencing with Section 116760) of
5Chapter 4.5, shall be administered by the State Water Resources
6Control Board. The fund shall be administered jointly with the
7Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund.
8(b) The State Water Resources Control Board is vested with all
9of the authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and
10jurisdiction of implementing the grant and loan programs for the
11Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
Section 77.7 of the Labor Code is repealed.
end deleteSection 127.6 of the Labor Code is repealed.
end deleteSection 138.65 of the Labor Code is repealed.
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