After wrapping up a months-long battle over the state budget, lawmakers rushed to meet a Feb. 27 deadline to introduce new bills for the 2009-10 session.Other measures can appear later as lawmakers “gut and amend” legislation – meaning pulling language out of a bill and putting in new language on a new subject. But these are the workers' compensation measures that have been introduced so far:AB 128 by Joe Coto, D-San Jose. Extends the cancer presumption afforded to public safety workers after termination from three months to one year for each full year of the requisite se...
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