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ASSEMBLY BILL 110 (PEACE – 1993)

CHAPTER 121, STATUTES OF 1993, AB 110

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Numerous Insurance and Labor Code sections were added, amended and repealed in 1993 following legislative passage of Assembly Bill 110, one of seven bills in a comprehensive workers’ compensation package before the Legislature that same year.  (See Exhibit A, #1h)  Of these seven bills, five were joined together, the enactment of one being conditioned on the enactment of the others.  (See Exhibit A, #1g, page 163, section 78, for example; See also Exhibit A, #13)  Assembly member Steve Peace introduced this bill on January 11, 1993.  (See Exhibit A, #1a)  

While before the Assembly, the measure was heard by the Assembly Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Public Investment and the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means.  (Exhibit A, #2, #3 and #5)  Three amendments were made to the bill in the Assembly before it passed to the Senate.  (See Exhibit A, #1b through #1d and #2)  According to the Concurrence in Senate Amendments analysis, Assembly Bill 110 as passed by the Assembly “. . . contained the comprehensive workers' compensation reform proposal developed during numerous hearings held by the Assembly Finance, Insurance, and Public Investment Committee.”  (See Exhibit A, #12, page 1)

On the Senate side, the Senate Committee on Industrial Relations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations heard the measure.  (See Exhibit A, #2 and #7 and #9)  The Senate amended Assembly Bill 110 only once, on May 5, 1993.  (See Exhibit A, #1e)  Assembly Bill 110 was then returned to the Assembly.  (See Exhibit A, #2)

Members of the Assembly rejected the Senate’s version of its bill and, consequently, a Conference Committee was formed so that the differences could be worked out.  (See Exhibit A, #1f, #1g and #2)  The purpose of a Conference Committee is to bring together six legislators, three from each House, in an attempt to reach a compromise on a bill’s language that is acceptable to both the Senate and the Assembly.

The Assembly and the Senate adopted the Conference Committee’s Report on July 16, 1993, at which time Assembly Bill 110 was forwarded to the Governor for signature.  (Id., and #13)  Governor Pete Wilson signed Assembly Bill 110 on July 16, 1993, becoming Chapter 121 of the Statutes of 1993.  (See Exhibit A, #1h and #2)