Brown praised the bill as a measure to facilitate hiring by California businesses.
The cost to California business has now reached seven hundred and fifty million dollars.
The law, which was enacted in 1935, is aimed at protecting California businesses from tax-free competition.
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California businesses and investors, public and private, are getting into the act.
California business, laid low by recession, is now desperate for an alternative to regulation-as-usual.
The total cost to California businesses that do not provide basic coverage would be $3.2 billion, Blue Shield said.
The jockeying has begun among California businesses desperate to avoid blackouts this summer.
Yet California businesses are trying to attribute higher rates to recent benefit increases for injured workers.
"Sears did not have an existing California business, so Orchard is a very good fit."