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 08/29/25 - Amended Senate
 02/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-1336 Farmworkers: benefits.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/15/2025 02:00 PM

AB1336:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 15, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 09, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 11, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 August 29, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1336

Introduced by Assembly Member Addis

February 21, 2025

 An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 62.5 of, and to add and repeal Section 3212.81 of, the Labor Code, relating to workers’ compensation. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1336, Addis.
 Farmworkers: benefits.

Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system to compensate employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. Existing law creates a disputable presumption that specified injuries sustained in the course of employment of a specified member of law enforcement or a specified first responder arose out of and in the course of employment. Existing law authorizes the Department of Industrial Relations to expend moneys that have been appropriated for the administration and enforcement of laws under its jurisdiction, as well as for the maintenance of any commission or office of the department, as specified.

Existing law establishes the Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund within the State Treasury. Existing law requires the director to levy a surcharge upon employers in order to fund, among other things, the
 Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, existing law authorizes funds to be expended for, among other things, the Return-to-Work Program and the enforcement of the insurance coverage program.

Existing law establishes a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board and sets forth various proceedings that are required to be brought forth before the board. Existing law provides that the appeals board is vested with full power, authority, and jurisdiction to try and determine finally all the matters specified in those proceedings subject only to the review by the courts, as specified.

 This bill would, until
 January 1, 2031,
 create a disputable presumption that a heat-related injury that develops within a specified timeframe after working outdoors for an employer in the agriculture industry that fails to comply with heat illness prevention standards, as defined, arose out of and came in the course of employment. The bill would require the appeals board to find in favor of the employee if the employer fails to rebut the presumption. The bill would specify that compensation awarded for heat-related injury to farmworkers is to include, among other things, medical treatment and disability. The bill would prohibit a determination by the appeals board from having any effect in certain investigations and would prohibit that determination from being admissible in proceedings before the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board. The bill would establish the Farmworker Climate Change Heat Injury and Death Fund that
 would consist of a one-time transfer of $5,000,000 derived from nongeneral funds of the Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund for the purpose of administrative costs associated with this presumption. The bill would make related findings and declarations.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The intent and purpose of this act is to prevent increasing farmworker heat-related injury, illness, and death, as climate change raises temperatures. It is the intent of the Legislature that all agricultural employers consider the climate change heat-related needs of farmworkers and do whatever is necessary to prevent injury, illness, and death, consistent with existing laws and regulations. It is not the intent of this act to change any existing heat-related regulation.

(b) Farmworkers are facing climate change in a
 climate of fear as heat-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths increase.

(c) The largest agricultural counties in California are experiencing record-breaking