Throughout the month of April, the Assembly Insurance and Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committees have passed legislation that would add BILLIONS of dollars to workers' compensation costs for cities, hospitals, and ALL of California's employers.

Two weeks ago, the Assembly Insurance Committee passed legislation that would give lifetime coverage for the public safety cancer presumption with no regard to the cost to local government or the impact on services (AB 128-Coto); at the same time the committee also passed a bill to extend presumptive injuries to ALL hospital workers, potentially sending healthcare costs even higher (AB 664-Skinner).

The Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee throughout April voted out legislation that would gut key sections of SB 899 on apportionment (SB 145-DeSaulnier) and voted to eliminate the pre-designation sunset without fixing significant loopholes to containing medical costs (SB 186-DeSaulnier); both potentially adding hundreds of millions of dollars at least to an already increasing system.

For more complete summaries of these four bills, please click HERE