The two bills that would have changed how a California rating turns into money both died with the 2025–26 session. SB 555 (Caballero) would have required that, for permanent partial disability, “average weekly earnings be taken at between $363 and $658 for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2027” (CHSWC’s summary of the June 1 text) — the bill never had its Assembly Insurance hearing; the June 24 setting was canceled at the author’s request. AB 1576 (Ortega), which would have changed “the calculation of disability ratings for SIBTF claims” to the 1.4 adjustment used for other claims, was held under submission in Senate Appropriations on August 13.
Nothing in the PD math moves. The schedule is still the 2005 PDRS with the SB 863 ×1.4 adjustment, the §4658 weeks are unchanged, and the PD weekly rate for any injury on or after January 1, 2014 stays between $160 and $290 — two-thirds of average weekly earnings, capped there. So the PD columns of the money chart (and its one-page PDF) hold for 2027 injuries too. What does change every January is temporary disability: the DWC announces the 2027 TD minimum and maximum from the state average weekly wage, usually in November or December — we’ll post it, and the rates table will carry it, the day it lands.
The year’s comp legislation that matters to ratings was SB 171’s rewrite of the Subsequent Injuries Fund (effective July 13, 2026), which also kept §5909’s reconsideration clock running from the trial judge’s transmission of a case to the Appeals Board. The SIBTF rules in the SIBTF calculator and the SIBTF guide are current law; AB 1576’s 2027 rating change does not apply. Descriptive summary of public legislative records; not legal advice.
Plain-language summary for informational use; not legal advice. Figures are quoted from the cited sources.