Bill Commons

CA AB 1683

enacted

Workers' compensation: prepaid cards.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

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, which, in the case of the death of an employee, includes a death benefit. Existing law governs temporary and permanent disability indemnity payments and prohibits a payment made by a written instrument unless it is immediately negotiable and payable in cash, among other things. Existing law, until January 1, 2027, allows an employer to commence a program under which disability indemnity payments are deposited in a prepaid card account for employees. This bill would extend the authorization to deposit indemnity payments in a prepaid card account indefinitely.

Introduced
Status date
Latest action
2026-07-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 59, Statutes of 2026.
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Committee on Insuranceauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-02

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2026-02-03

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.

  3. 2026-02-17

    Referred to Com. on INS.

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  4. 2026-04-15

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  5. 2026-04-29

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29).

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  6. 2026-04-30

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  7. 2026-05-07

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4967.)

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  8. 2026-05-07

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  9. 2026-05-20

    Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

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  10. 2026-06-10

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  11. 2026-06-22

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  12. 2026-06-23

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  13. 2026-06-25

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.).

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  14. 2026-06-25

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  15. 2026-07-02

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  16. 2026-07-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  17. 2026-07-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 59, Statutes of 2026.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2026-04-15 · pass · 17-0

    Member-level votes (17)
    • Wallis: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2026-04-29 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Muratsuchi: other
  • AB 1683 Insurance Consent Calendar Second Day

    2026-05-07 · pass · 66-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Fong: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gallagher: other
    • Irwin: other
    • Hoover: other
    • Wicks: other
    • Chen: other
    • Bonta: other
    • Hart: other
    • Celeste Rodriguez: other
    • Valencia: other
    • Arambula: other
    • Wallis: other
    • Petrie-Norris: other
    • Flora: other
    • Papan: other
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2026-06-10 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Durazo: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Strickland: yes
  • Consent Calendar 2nd AB1683 INS.

    2026-06-25 · pass · 36-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Dahle: other
    • Reyes: other
    • Jones: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other

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