Committee Passes Debit Card Payment, Presumption Bills

A California Senate committee unanimously passed bills that would give some fire and rescue workers in San Diego the same presumptions as other first responders and allow carriers to continue using prepaid debit cards to pay benefits to injured workers. The Senate Committee on Labor and Public Employment and Retirement on Wednesday voted 5-0 to pass AB 699 and AB 489. AB 699, by Assemblymember Akilah Weber, D-San Diego, would establish that full-time members of the boating safety unit in the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department are eligible for the presumption that certain conditions arose out o...