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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1513
Author: Committee on Insurance
AmendedAmended:3/26/15 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE LABOR & IND. REL. COMMITTEE: 5-0, 6/24/15
AYES: Mendoza, Stone, Jackson, Leno, Mitchell
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 4/16/15 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Workers compensation: studies
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill deletes three obsolete study requirements
for the workers' compensation system.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Establishes a workers' compensation system that provides
benefits to an employee who suffers from an injury or illness
that arises out of and in the course of employment,
irrespective of fault. This system requires all employers to
secure payment of benefits by either securing the consent of
the Department of Industrial Relations to self-insure or by
securing insurance against liability from an insurance company
duly authorized by the state.
2)Requires that, not later than July 1, 2009, the Commission on
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Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC) publishes
a study to examine the causes of the number of insolvencies
among workers' compensation insurers from 1998 to 2008. (Labor
Code §77.7)
3)Requires that, not later than July 1, 2004, the administrative
director conducts a study of medical treatment provided to
workers who have sustained industrial injuries and illnesses.
Existing law also requires that this study be conducted in
consultation with the CHSWC, other state agencies, and
researchers and research institutions with expertise in health
care delivery. (Labor Code §127.6)
4)Requires that, not later than January 1, 2006, the
administrative director, after consultation with the Insurance
Commissioner, contracts with a qualified organization to study
the effects of the 2003 and 2004 legislative reforms on
workers' compensation insurance rates. (Labor Code §138.65)
This bill deletes the above-discussed study requirements.
Background
As was discussed above, existing law contains three study
requirements, all three of which contain deadlines which have
already passed. All three studies have either been published by
CHSWC or addressed by other studies. Therefore, deleting these
provisions will not impact ongoing research or the workers'
compensation system.
The Assembly Insurance Committee's analysis also notes that this
bill may be a vehicle "for other noncontroversial changes to the
workers' compensation laws that achieve consensus among all
stakeholders, should these issues arise during this Legislative
Session." To date, such a consensus issue has yet to be found in
this legislative session.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:NoLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/24/15)
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None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/24/15)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 4/16/15
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang,
Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle,
Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina
Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina,
Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen,
Patterson, Perea, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,
Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Quirk
Prepared by:Gideon Baum / L. & I.R. / (916) 651-1556
6/29/15 15:53:20
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