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 his or her employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide, or pay for all reasonable costs of, medical services necessary to care for or relieve work-related injuries. Existing law further provides that in the case of active firefighting members of certain state and local fire departments and in the case of certain peace officers, a compensable injury includes cancer that develops or manifests itself during the period when the firefighter or peace officer demonstrates that he or she was exposed, while in the service of the public agency, to a known carcinogen, as defined, and the carcinogen is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer. Existing law establishes a presumption that the cancer in these cases is presumed to arise out of, and in the course of, employment, unless the presumption is controverted by evidence that the primary site of the cancer has been established and that the carcinogen to which the member has demonstrated exposure is not reasonably linked to the disabling cancer.
California AB 2253 (20092010) — Workers' compensation: cancer presumption.
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 his or her employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide, or pay for all reasonable costs of, medical services necessary to care for or relieve work-related injuries. Existing law further provides that in the case of active firefighting members of certain state and local fire departments and in the case of certain peace officers, a compensable injury includes cancer that develops or manifests itself during the period when the firefighter or peace officer demonstrates that he or she was exposed, while in the service of the public agency, to a known carcinogen, as defined, and the carcinogen is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer. Existing law establishes a presumption that the cancer in these cases is presumed to arise out of, and in the course of, employment, unless the presumption is controverted by evidence that the primary site of the cancer has been established and that the carcinogen to which the member has demonstrated exposure is not reasonably linked to the disabling cancer.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 2253 COTO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Coto — primary (person)
Bill Berryhill — coauthor (person)
Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
Chesbro — coauthor (person)
Cook — coauthor (person)
Corbett — coauthor (person)
DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
Fletcher — coauthor (person)
Fuentes — coauthor (person)
Hagman — coauthor (person)
Jeffries — principal coauthor (person)
Lieu — coauthor (person)
Mendoza — coauthor (person)
Nava — coauthor (person)
Portantino — coauthor (person)
Price — coauthor (person)
Salas — coauthor (person)
Solorio — principal coauthor (person)
Tom Berryhill — coauthor (person)
Villines — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2010-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2010-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2010-03-11 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2010-04-07 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2010-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2010-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2010-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2010-06-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2010-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 4. Page 5509.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2010-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2010-06-10 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
2010-06-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
2010-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2010-08-16 Received August 13 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14)
2010-08-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2010-08-18 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 9. Page 4599.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2010-08-18 In Assembly. To enrollment.
2010-08-26 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2010.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef9929b1-48ce-4c4d-a92d-ebe54a9bba14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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