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History
- Referred to labor
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–0
- Amended on third reading 5951a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.96
- Referred to labor
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to labor
- Delivered to assembly
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- Passed senateVote 62–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1869
- Referred to rules
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Relates to the continuation of death benefits to a surviving spouse regardless of remarriage
In Assembly Committee · Labor · Sponsor Keith L.T. Wright
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the continuation of death benefits to a surviving spouse regardless of remarriage
Purpose
Allow for the continuation of workers' compensation death benefits to a surviving spouse and children regardless of remarriage.
Summary of provisions
Amends Subdivisions 1-b, 1-c, 1-d, 2, 2-a, 2-b of section 16 of the workers' compensation law, and adds a new subdivision 2-c.
Existing law
Workers' Compensation Law provides Workers' compensation provides death benefits (survivor benefits) to a spouse and to dependent minor children of the deceased worker. Death benefits are calculated as a percentage of the deceased's average wages, subject to a minimum and a maximum.
These benefits cease upon remarriage with the payment of two years compensation in a lump sum.
If an injured worker dies from a job-related injury, the surviving spouse and/or minor children or, lacking such, other dependents as defined by law, are entitled to death and survivor benefits. Funeral expenses are payable up to statutory maximums.
Justification
The ability to remarry should not be hindered by the possibility of financial loss to a family who has already suffered the greatest loss, that of a spouse and parent. This legislation will allow for workers compensation survivor benefits to continue in the case of the remarriage of a surviving spouse, thus allowing a survivor to move forward in a new chapter of their life.
Legislative history
2013-2014: A6559
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
On the sixtieth day after it shall have become law.
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