Bill Text: CA SB631 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workers’ compensation: gender equity comparative analysis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB631 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB631-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Senate
May 18, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 631
| Introduced by Senator Cortese |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Section 3206.5 of to the Labor Code, relating to workers’ compensation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 631, as amended, Cortese.
Workers’ compensation: gender equity comparative analysis.
Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee, as defined, for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law establishes various benefits to be paid or provided to injured employees, including temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, and permanent disability, which are based on an employee’s average earnings, as specified.
This bill would would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, require the administrative director, in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley,
to prepare a comparative analysis to examine differences in workers’ compensation benefits provided to employees of different genders, including differences between industries, rate of claim denial, and any difference in compensation paid, as specified. The bill would require the administrative director to prepare and provide a report on the comparative analysis to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2025. 6 months after its completion.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 3206.5 is added to the Labor Code, to read:3206.5.
(a) The administrative director, in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, shall prepare a comparative analysis to examine differences in workers’ compensation benefits provided to employees of different genders. The analysis shall include a comparison between the genders in different industries, monetizing the value of compensation, the rate at which claims are denied, and any differences in compensation benefits, not including medical treatment.(b) The administrative director shall prepare and provide a report on the comparative analysis to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2025.
six months after the completion of the comparative analysis.
(c) (1)A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2)Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2029.
(d) This section shall become operative only upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose.
