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Committee advances bill to create rebuttable presumption for heat‑related farmworker injuries
Summary
AB 13 36 would create a rebuttable presumption that a heat‑related injury arose out of employment when an agricultural employer failed to comply with California heat‑illness prevention standards; the committee passed the bill to Appropriations amid divided votes and vocal support from labor groups.
Assemblymember Queta L. Addis’s AB 13 36 was passed to the Committee on Appropriations after supporters described heat illness among farmworkers as a growing public‑health and workplace safety problem worsened by climate change.
The bill creates a rebuttable presumption in the workers' compensation system: if a farmworker suffers a heat‑related illness and shows the employer failed to comply with required heat‑illness prevention regulations, the injury is presumed to have arisen out of employment unless the employer…
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