Senate Committee Passes State Hospital Worker Presumption

The Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement unanimously passed a bill that would provide that a heart trouble presumption applies to all peace officers working for the California Department of State Hospitals. AB 1125, by Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, D-Elk Grove, would declare that the presumption applies to any of the approximately 700 peace officers working at any of the department’s five hospitals. Current law presumes heart trouble arose from employment for peace officers working for the department’s facility in Atascadero, where the majority of the al...