CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1107Introduced by Assembly Member Chu(Coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes)February 21, 2019 An act relating to workers compensation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1107, as introduced, Chu. Workers compensation: medical treatment.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 an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries and receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby recognizes that workers in this state who are injured while working are routinely victimized by long delays in receiving medical attention and treatment. The Legislature further recognizes that these workers often do not have access to physicians willing to treat them within the current system and that lack of access is particularly acute in many medical specialties, including cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, and urology. Delay and lack of access cause or are accompanied by delays in receipts of monetary and nonmonetary workers compensation benefits. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries, that shall include treatment by a medical specialist if appropriate. It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously, as required pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1107Introduced by Assembly Member Chu(Coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes)February 21, 2019 An act relating to workers compensation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1107, as introduced, Chu. Workers compensation: medical treatment.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 an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries and receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 1107
Introduced by Assembly Member Chu(Coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes)February 21, 2019
Introduced by Assembly Member Chu(Coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes)
February 21, 2019
An act relating to workers compensation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1107, as introduced, Chu. Workers compensation: medical treatment.
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 an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries and receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously.
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 an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries and receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby recognizes that workers in this state who are injured while working are routinely victimized by long delays in receiving medical attention and treatment. The Legislature further recognizes that these workers often do not have access to physicians willing to treat them within the current system and that lack of access is particularly acute in many medical specialties, including cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, and urology. Delay and lack of access cause or are accompanied by delays in receipts of monetary and nonmonetary workers compensation benefits. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries, that shall include treatment by a medical specialist if appropriate. It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously, as required pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby recognizes that workers in this state who are injured while working are routinely victimized by long delays in receiving medical attention and treatment. The Legislature further recognizes that these workers often do not have access to physicians willing to treat them within the current system and that lack of access is particularly acute in many medical specialties, including cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, and urology. Delay and lack of access cause or are accompanied by delays in receipts of monetary and nonmonetary workers compensation benefits. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries, that shall include treatment by a medical specialist if appropriate. It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously, as required pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution.
SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby recognizes that workers in this state who are injured while working are routinely victimized by long delays in receiving medical attention and treatment. The Legislature further recognizes that these workers often do not have access to physicians willing to treat them within the current system and that lack of access is particularly acute in many medical specialties, including cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, and urology. Delay and lack of access cause or are accompanied by delays in receipts of monetary and nonmonetary workers compensation benefits. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries, that shall include treatment by a medical specialist if appropriate. It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously, as required pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution.
SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby recognizes that workers in this state who are injured while working are routinely victimized by long delays in receiving medical attention and treatment. The Legislature further recognizes that these workers often do not have access to physicians willing to treat them within the current system and that lack of access is particularly acute in many medical specialties, including cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, and urology. Delay and lack of access cause or are accompanied by delays in receipts of monetary and nonmonetary workers compensation benefits. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive prompt medical examinations, diagnosis, and reasonable and necessary treatment for work-related injuries, that shall include treatment by a medical specialist if appropriate. It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that injured workers receive their monetary and nonmonetary benefits expeditiously, as required pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution.
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