WOEMA is a regional component of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), and is dedicated to high quality medical care and ethical principles governing the practice of occupational medicine.

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Priority Bills 

CALIFORNIA

AB 586 (Huber)
Held in Senate Appropriations    Extends cancer presumption to UC and CSU police.  WOEMA as policy opposes such extensions owing to insufficient scientific basis.    Disapprove

AB 664 (Skinner)   
Held in Assembly Appropriations    Extends presumption to hospital employees for neck or back injury, blood-borne infectious diseases and MRSA.  WOEMA as policy opposes such extension owing to insufficient scientific basis.    Disapprove

AB 933 (Fong)
Two-year bill - Requires UR physicians to be licensed in state.    Support

AB 1093 (Yamada)
    Governor’s desk    Narrow bill attempts to ensure that race is not a factor in determining eligibility for benefits. WOEMA’s concern is with unintended consequences.         Disapprove

SB 145 (DeSaulnier)   
Assembly Inactive file  - Apportionment and benefits can’t be affected by worker’s “race, religious creed, color, national origin, age, gender, marital status, sex or genetic predisposition.”  WOEMA believes this could open the door to spurious litigation.      Oppose

SB 186 (DeSaulnier)   
Assembly Floor    Repeals 12/31/09 sunset for pre-designation of PTP, effectively predesignation permanent.     Approve