republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-230.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 230	California SB 230 (20252026)	bill	Workers'compensation firefighters	enacted	Laird	6	22	5	2025-01-28	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/04d2b3a1-14e8-4c4f-8c92-ad6d97f334ee	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB230	6276649e959d65256b3f7148af0cc592d545ce0906cafd9f178d4e59db4ae77c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 03/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/20/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB230 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/04d2b3a1-14e8-4c4f-8c92-ad6d97f334ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).