Bill Text: CA AB1750 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workers’ compensation: rehabilitation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1750 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1750-Amended.html
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Amended
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April 01, 2019 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1750 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Burke |
February 22, 2019 |
An act to amend Section 6207 of add Section 6209 to the Labor Code, relating to workers’ compensation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1750, as amended, Burke.
Workers’ compensation: rehabilitation.
Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires a public agency, its insurance carrier, and the Department of Rehabilitation to jointly formulate procedures to select and refer injured full-time public employees for rehabilitation services. Existing law provides that a rehabilitation benefit is an additional benefit that does not replace a workers’ compensation benefit. services and retraining for other positions in public service.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
This bill would require the Department of Rehabilitation to issue a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2022, and every 5 years thereafter, that outlines the extent to which injured full-time public employees were rehabilitated or retrained and rehired for other available positions in public service.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 6209 is added to the Labor Code, to read:6209.
On or before January 1, 2022, and every five years thereafter, the Department of Rehabilitation shall issue a report to the Legislature outlining the extent to which injured full-time public employees were rehabilitated or retrained and rehired for other available positions in public service. The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.The injured employee’s rehabilitation benefit is an additional benefit and shall not be converted to or replace a workers’ compensation benefit available to the employee.
