AB-1125 • 2026

Workers’ compensation: peace officers.

Healthcare Labor

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Nguyen
Last action: 2025-10-03
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 291, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on when the changes will start, leaving this as an unknown.

Workers' Compensation for Peace Officers

This law adds peace officers working at state hospitals to a list of workers who can claim special help if they have heart problems from their job.

What This Bill Does

Adds peace officers employed by the State Department of State Hospitals to an existing presumption that helps employees with heart issues caused by work.
Updates other parts of the law to match this new addition.

Who It Names or Affects

Peace officers working at state hospitals under the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services.

Terms To Know

Workers' compensation: A system that pays for medical care and lost wages when a worker gets hurt on the job.
Disputable presumption: An assumption in legal cases where it is believed something happened because of work, but this can be challenged.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify when exactly these changes will start.
It only applies to peace officers working at state hospitals and does not cover all types of workers or heart conditions.

Bill History

2025-10-03 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 291, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-03 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-22 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-10 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3232.).
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2664.).
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-04 California Legislative Information
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-08-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-26 California Legislative Information
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-06-27 California Legislative Information
Ordered to third reading.
2025-06-27 California Legislative Information
From Consent Calendar.
2025-06-24 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-06-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-04 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1664.)
2025-05-15 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-05-14 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
2025-04-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on INS.
2025-04-21 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on INS.
2025-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1125, Nguyen.
Workers’ compensation: peace officers.
Existing law designates various persons as peace officers, including officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services. Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. Existing law creates a disputable presumption, applicable to officers and employees in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, that heart trouble that develops or manifests during a period when the employee is in the service of the department arose out of and in the course of employment.
This bill would
add to the above-described presumption a peace officer, as defined, employed by the State Department of State Hospitals and would make other conforming and technical changes.

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