BILL NUMBER: SB 484	CHAPTERED  07/16/93
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER   119
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 16, 1993
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 16, 1993
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 16, 1993
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JULY 16, 1993
	CONFERENCE REPORT NO.   2
	PROPOSED IN CONFERENCE   JULY 16, 1993
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 11, 1993
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 13, 1993
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 29, 1993

INTRODUCED BY  Senator Lockyer
   (Coauthor:  Senator Johnston)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 1993

   An act relating to workers' compensation, making an
appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 484, Lockyer.  Workers' compensation.
   Existing law provides for the payment of workers'
compensation benefits to employees injured in the course of
employment.  Existing law contains various provisions regulating
workers' compensation.
   This bill would appropriate $500,000 from the Workplace
Health and Safety Revolving Fund to the Commission on Health and
Safety and Workers' Compensation.
   It would appropriate $4,600,000 as a loan from the General
Fund to the Department of Corporations to cover startup
personnel and operating expenses for the period from January 1,
1994, to June 30, 1995, inclusive, relating to implementation of
the Workers' Compensation Health Care Provider Organization
Act.
   The bill would appropriate $2,000,000 from the Workers'
Compensation Administration Fund and $4,000,000 from the General
Fund to the Division of Workers' Compensation.
   The bill would become operative only if AB 110, AB 119, AB
1300, and SB 983 are also enacted.
  The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


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


  SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)
is appropriated from the Workplace Health and Safety Revolving
Fund to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers'
Compensation.
  SEC. 2. The sum of four million six hundred thousand dollars
($4,600,000) is appropriated as a loan from the General Fund to
the Department of Corporations to cover startup personnel and
operating expenses for the period from January 1, 1994, to June
30, 1995, inclusive, relating to implementation of the Workers'
Compensation Health Care Provider Organization Act.  The loan
shall be repaid over four years in equal annual installments of
one million one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,150,000) plus
interest calculated at the Pooled Money Investment Account
rate.
  SEC. 3. The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) is
appropriated from the Workers' Compensation Administration Fund
to the Division of Workers' Compensation.
  SEC. 4. The sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) is
appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Workers'
Compensation.
  SEC. 5. This act shall become operative only if Assembly Bills
110, 119, 1300, and Senate Bill 983 of the 1993-94 Regular
Session are all enacted and become effective on or before
January 1, 1994.
  SEC. 6. 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 make changes to California's workers'
compensation system that are needed to provide immediate relief
to California businesses and workers, it is necessary for this
act to take effect immediately.