CA SB 447
enactedWorkers' compensation: death benefits.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 447 pass?
Yes. CA SB 447 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-11): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 653, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 447 about?
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. Under existing law, when a local employee who is a firefighter or peace officer, as specified, and that employee is killed or dies as a result of an accident or injury caused by external violence of physical force incurred in the performance of their duty, the employer is required to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's minor dependents under the benefits extended to the surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, until the minor dependent is 21 years of age. This bill would increase that age to 26 years of age.
Who sponsors CA SB 447?
Umberg is the primary sponsor of CA SB 447, joined by 1 cosponsor.
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. Under existing law, when a local employee who is a firefighter or peace officer, as specified, and that employee is killed or dies as a result of an accident or injury caused by external violence of physical force incurred in the performance of their duty, the employer is required to continue providing health benefits to the deceased employee's minor dependents under the benefits extended to the surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, until the minor dependent is 21 years of age. This bill would increase that age to 26 years of age.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-18
- Latest action
- 2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 653, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Umbergauthor
- Rubiocoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-10-11
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 653, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-10-11
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-09-22
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-09-11
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2927.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-09
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-08-28
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-08-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2776.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-08-21
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-08-20
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-06-23
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-06-05
Referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-05-29
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1
2025-05-29
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1326.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-27
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1200.) (May 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-04-07
April 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-03-28
Set for hearing April 7.
2025-03-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 568.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-03-18
Set for hearing March 26.
2025-02-26
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-02-19
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
2025-02-18
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-26 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-04-07 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
Special Consent
2025-05-29 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Grove: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Jones: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Pérez: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Laird: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Choi: yes
- Valladares: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Niello: yes
- Allen: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Becker: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Limón: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-16 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Berman: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Chen: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Addis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ellis: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
SB 447 Umberg Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-08-28 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Dixon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Krell: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Chen: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bains: yes
- Flora: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Fong: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Berman: other
- Elhawary: other
- Valencia: other
- Gallagher: other
Special Consent SB447 Umberg et al.
2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Reyes: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Allen: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
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