republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-489.md

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Bill	Workers' compensation: disability payments.	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 the employee's employment. Existing law governs temporary and permanent disability indemnity payments. Existing law, until January 1, 2024, allows an employer to commence a program under which disability indemnity payments are deposited in a prepaid card account for employees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 489	California AB 489 (20232024)	bill	Workers' compensation disability payments	enacted	Calderon	4	17	5	2023-02-07	2023-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/774a6b90-41f0-4a92-9072-6a63e259cfe7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB489	c4a17508de84e992a7546b9f8c4d8da2217e3c10b2d1ca0655a5f0ecdf7ef51b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 489 (20232024) — Workers' compensation: disability payments.

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 the employee's employment. Existing law governs temporary and permanent disability indemnity payments. Existing law, until January 1, 2024, allows an employer to commence a program under which disability indemnity payments are deposited in a prepaid card account for employees.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB489 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 489 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1363.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-10 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1827.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-29 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 63, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/774a6b90-41f0-4a92-9072-6a63e259cfe7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).