Senate Committee Approves PTSD Expansion, System Study

The Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement unanimously passed bills that would expand the post-traumatic stress disorder presumption and require a study into whether California’s workers’ compensation system treats men and women differently. The committee on Wednesday voted 5-0 to pass SB 623, by Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, which would expand the PTSD presumption to cover firefighters for the departments of State Hospitals, Developmental Services, Military and Veterans Affairs. It would also add public safety dispatchers to the list of workers for whom it ...