SACRAMENTO - Bills important to Republicans and the business community sail through the state Assembly but founder when they hit the Senate, which is in Democratic hands. There was a July 5 deadline for bills to pass out of policy committees. The Senate Industrial Relations Committee is a policy committee. On June 26 its six members considered a number of Assembly bills. Most had to do with workers' compensation.TB: AB 2225 made it out. It would establish a workers' comp presumption if a prison or
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