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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 475

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Relating to: worker misclassification and providing a penalty.

Employment Fraud Insurance — Miscellaneous Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Workers compensation

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, if an insurer or self-insured employer has evidence that a

worker's compensation claim is false or fraudulent, the insurer or self-insured

employer must generally report the claim to the Department of Workforce

Development. If, based on the investigation, DWD has a reasonable basis to believe

that criminal insurance fraud has occurred, DWD must refer the matter to the

district attorney for prosecution. Also under current law, DWD may request

assistance from the Department of Justice to investigate false or fraudulent activity

related to a worker's compensation claim. If, based on that investigation, DWD has

a reasonable basis to believe that theft, forgery, fraud, or any other criminal violation

has occurred, DWD must refer the matter to the district attorney or DOJ for

prosecution. The bill extends these requirements to insurers who have evidence that

an application for worker's compensation insurance coverage is fraudulent or that

an employer has committed fraud by misclassifying employees to lower the

employer's worker's compensation insurance premiums.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Baldeh (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , McGuire (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Myers (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Riemer (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

10 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D) , Wirch (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sinicki, Shankland, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Bare, Billings, Cabrera, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, McGuire, Moore Omokunde, Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Riemer, Shelton, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Agard, Carpenter, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer and Taylor

  2. Oct 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1