Bill Text: CA SB1205 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Workers’ compensation: medical benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - Set for hearing May 16. [SB1205 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1205-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1205
| Introduced by Senator Laird |
February 15, 2024 |
An act to add Section 4600.03 to the Labor Code, relating to workers’ compensation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1205, as introduced, Laird.
Workers’ compensation: medical benefits.
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 requires employers to secure the payment of workers’ compensation, including wage replacement and medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment.
This bill would make an employee who is working entitled to receive all reasonable expenses of transportation, meals, and lodging incident to receiving treatment, in addition to one day of temporary disability indemnity, or a percentage of one day of temporary disability indemnity representative of the percentage of the wages lost receiving treatment.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 4600.03 is added to the Labor Code, to read:4600.03.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 4656, when treatment is provided pursuant to this article to an employee who is working, the employee is entitled to receive, in addition to all other benefits, all reasonable expenses of transportation, meals, and lodging incident to receiving treatment, together with one day of temporary disability indemnity for each day of wages lost receiving treatment.(b) If treatment does not require the employee to miss a full day of work, the employer may instead provide a percentage of one day of temporary disability indemnity representative of the percentage of the wages lost receiving treatment.
(c) This section applies whether the injury has become
permanent and stationary or not.
(d) Regardless of the date of injury, “reasonable expenses of transportation” includes mileage fees from the employee’s home to the place of the treatment and back at the rate adopted by the Director of Human Resources pursuant to Section 19820 of the Government Code, plus any bridge tolls.
(e) The employer may not discharge or in any way discriminate against the employee for receiving treatment during normal business hours or during the hours of the day when the employee is customarily at work.
