Lawmakers Put Final Touches on Bills as Session Winds Down

More workers would be exempted from a new test to determine employee status, and police and firefighters would need at least six months of service before they qualify for the presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable, under amended bills California lawmakers will discuss during the last week of the 2019 session. Other late amendments would delay by a year both the reporting requirement for Schedule V drugs and the deadline for the Division of Workers’ Compensation to post to its website utilization data for physicians. Sen. Henry Stern, D-Los Angeles, on Friday ame...