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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' compensation: firefighters."
+description: "Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee, as defined, for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption that specified injuries, such as cancer or post-traumatic stress disorder, developed or manifested 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 makes these provisions applicable to certain active firefighting members, including active firefighting members of a fire department that serves a United States Department of Defense installation or active firefighting members of a fire department that serves a National Aeronautics and Space Administration installation."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "SB 230"
+citation: "California SB 230 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Workers'compensation", "firefighters"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-28"
+last_action: "2025-10-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04d2b3a1-14e8-4c4f-8c92-ad6d97f334ee"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230"
+source_hash: "6276649e959d65256b3f7148af0cc592d545ce0906cafd9f178d4e59db4ae77c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 230 (20252026) — Workers' compensation: firefighters.
+
+Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee, as defined, for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption that specified injuries, such as cancer or post-traumatic stress disorder, developed or manifested 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 makes these provisions applicable to certain active firefighting members, including active firefighting members of a fire department that serves a United States Department of Defense installation or active firefighting members of a fire department that serves a National Aeronautics and Space Administration installation.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/28/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230&version=20250SB23099INT)
+2. **03/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230&version=20250SB23098AMD)
+3. **08/20/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230&version=20250SB23097AMD)
+4. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230&version=20250SB23095CHP)
+5. **SB230** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230)
+6. **09/05/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230&version=20250SB23096ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 230 Laird Senate Third Reading By Berman — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar 2nd SB230 Laird et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB230 Laird et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Laird — primary (person)
+- Becker — coauthor (person)
+- Berman — coauthor (person)
+- Grayson — coauthor (person)
+- Stern — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-28** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-01-29** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 28.
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Set for hearing March 26.
+- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 567.) (March 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 604.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-12** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-07-14** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
+- **2025-07-14** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2025-08-20** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2863.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-03** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-04** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2512.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 404, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04d2b3a1-14e8-4c4f-8c92-ad6d97f334ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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