Fiscal Committees Pass Comp Bills Ahead of Deadline

Fiscal committees in the California Legislature recently signed off on workers’ compensation bills with a combined projected price tag of more than $10 million. Appropriations committees in the Senate and Assembly each passed three work comp bills ahead of Friday’s deadline for fiscal committees to move bills to the floor for votes by the full chambers. Measures that would exempt some public sector workers from caps on work comp death benefits and presume some mental injuries are compensable for state workers had the highest projected price tags. Bills calling for studies into how...