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Bill	Workers' compensation: medical provider networks: fee schedules.	(1) 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 authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for the provision of medical treatment to injured employees, and requires the administrative director to contract with individual physicians or an independent medical review organization to perform independent medical reviews.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 542	California SB 542 (20152016)	bill	Workers' compensation: medical provider networks: fee schedules.	enacted	Mendoza	8	28	6	2015-02-26	2015-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/d58eff05-aff9-4ddd-bb93-a2b91191581d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB542	c637f22ef8249d6a2a5abaaae9ca06c05c3af008e9571d5419d4d36984687cb3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 542 (20152016) — Workers' compensation: medical provider networks: fee schedules.

(1) 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 authorizes an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services to establish or modify a medical provider network for the provision of medical treatment to injured employees, and requires the administrative director to contract with individual physicians or an independent medical review organization to perform independent medical reviews.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB542 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/10/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 542 Mendoza Senate Third Reading By DALY — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB542 Mendoza Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mendoza — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2015-02-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2015-04-16 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 729.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-24 Set for hearing May 4.
• 2015-05-04 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 930.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-06-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Cristina Garcia.
• 2015-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-27 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2688.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2658.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 a.m.
• 2015-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 542, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d58eff05-aff9-4ddd-bb93-a2b91191581d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).