Anthony Portantino
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 25
Author
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, and in the course of, employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury. Existing law includes in the meaning of medical treatment services and supplies by physical therapists, chiropractic practitioners, and acupuncturists, that are licensed and within the scope of their practice. Existing law authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for the provision of medical treatment to injured employees, and requires that a network include an adequate number and type of physicians or other providers, as defined. This bill would include a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) as treatment the employer is reasonably required to provide, would expand the meaning of medical treatment to include the services of an LCSW, and would authorize an employer to provide an employee with access to an LCSW, as defined, acting within the scope of their practice. The bill would authorize medical provider networks to add LCSWs to the physician providers listing, authorize an LCSW to treat or evaluate an injured worker only upon referral from a physician, as defined, and prohibit an LCSW from determining disability, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations in support of allowing licensed clinical social workers to treat work-related mental and behavioral health issues. Existing law requires that when a self-insured employer, group of self-insured employers, or the insurer of an employer contracts with a health care organization for health care services to be provided to injured employees, those employees subject to the contract are to receive medical services in the manner prescribed in the contract. Existing law requires that each contract provide all medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of the injury. This bill would include an LCSW as treatment that the contract is required to provide.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 609, Statutes of 2022.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5415.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
Ordered to the Assembly.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5828.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3583.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing April 18.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3309.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 4.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
March 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing March 21.
From printer.
Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1002 | HTML |
| 02/14/22 - Introduced | |
| 03/24/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/23/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/22/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/09/22 - Enrolled | |
| 09/27/22 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/31/22- Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement | |
| 04/20/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/21/22- Assembly Insurance | |
| 08/01/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/12/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/19/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/22/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/31/22- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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