Workers' compensation: reports.

(1) Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system to compensate employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment. Existing law establishes the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation in the Department of Industrial Relations and requires the commission to conduct a continuing examination of the workers' compensation system and of the state's activities to prevent industrial injuries and occupational diseases. Existing law requires the commission to issue an annual report on the state of the workers' compensation system, including recommendations for modifications that would improve the operation of the system. Existing law requires the report to be made available to the Governor, the Legislature, and the public on request. Existing law also requires the commission to periodically issue a report and recommendations on the improvement and simplification of notices required to be provided by insurers and self-insured employers, as it deems necessary. This bill would require the annual report on the workers' compensation system to be made available on the commission's internet website and to specifically be made available to the Assembly Committee on Insurance and the Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement rather than to the Legislature generally. The bill would also require the commission to provide its periodic report on the improvement and simplification of notices to the Assembly Committee on Insurance and the Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement. (2) Existing law requires the commission to conduct and periodically update a survey and evaluation of evidence-based, peer-reviewed, nationally recognized standards of care, as specified. This bill would repeal that requirement.