Fiscal Committees Pass most Bills ahead of Deadline

The California Assembly Appropriations Committee on Friday passed a measure that would create a presumption that a worker on a public works project was paid prevailing wages when calculating workers’ compensation benefits but held a bill that would allow expedited hearings in uninsured employer cases.Friday was the deadline for fiscal committees to pass measures to the floor of the chamber in which they were introduced. While the expedited hearing bill failed to move in time, appropriations committees in both houses have passed a handful of measures of interest to the workers’ comp...