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        CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
        AB 586 (Ma)
        As Amended  March 23, 2010
        2/3 vote. Urgency
         
         
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        |ASSEMBLY: |     |(June 2, 2009)  |SENATE: |33-0 |(June 17, 2010)      |
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             (vote not relevant)
         
         
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        |COMMITTEE VOTE:  |11-1 |(June 23, 2010)     |RECOMMENDATION: |concur    |
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        Original Committee Reference:    INS.  

         SUMMARY  :  Corrects a drafting error that accidentally excluded  
        certain safety officers in San Francisco from receiving "4850"  
        benefits.

         The Senate amendments  delete the Assembly version of the bill, and  
        instead:

        1)Narrow an exclusion of certain safety officers employed by the  
          City and County of San Francisco from the law that provides full  
          pay for up to one year for these officers if injured on the job.

        2)Provide that the change in the law proposed by the bill is  
          retroactive to January 1, 2010 (the date that the law being  
          corrected became effective.)

        3)Adopt an urgency clause.

         EXISTING LAW  :

        1)Provides for a comprehensive system of workers' compensation  
          benefits for employees injured on the job, including temporary  
          disability benefits equal to 2/3 of usual wages, subject to a  
          cap.

        2)Provides most peace officers and firefighters with a special  
          benefit of full pay for up to one year for temporary disabilities  








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          incurred on the job.

        3)Excludes public safety officers employed by the City and County  
          of San Francisco.

         FISCAL EFFECT  :  Undetermined.

         Comments  :  AB 1227 (Feuer) of 2009 (Statutes 2009, Chapter 389)  
        amended Labor Code Section 4850, the provision that grants safety  
        officers the special "full pay" disability benefit.  Prior to AB  
        1227, only safety officers covered by specified retirement systems  
        qualified for "4850 time."  AB 1227 changed this limitation,  
        applying Section 4850 to all safety officers unless specifically  
        excluded.  In general, the exclusions applied to officers who  
        already had a 4850-like benefit.  Certain safety officers in San  
        Francisco fit this category, but the language in the bill drew a  
        circle around officers who previously had 4850 benefits, and who  
        did not have alternative 4850-like benefits.  The bill is designed  
        to correct this drafting error.


         Analysis Prepared by  :    Mark Rakich / INS. / (916) 319-2086 FN:  
        0005021