CaliforniaPaid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.
What it does
Existing unemployment compensation disability law requires workers to pay contribution rates based on, among other things, wages received in employment and benefit disbursement, for payment into the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund, a special fund in the State Treasury. That fund is continuously appropriated for the purpose of providing disability benefits and making payment of expenses in administering those provisions.
More detail
Existing law establishes, within the above state disability insurance program, a family temporary disability insurance program, also known as the paid family leave program, for the provision of wage replacement benefits for up to 8 weeks to workers who take time off work for prescribed purposes, including to care for a seriously ill family member. Existing law defines terms for its purposes, including family care leave and family member.
This bill would, commencing July 1, 2028, expand eligibility for benefits under the paid family leave program to include individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill designated person. The bill would define designated person to mean any care recipient related by blood or whose association with the individual is the equivalent of a family relationship, and would make conforming changes to the definitions of the terms family care leave and family member.
This bill would require an individual that requests for the first time family temporary disability insurance benefits to care for a designated person to identify the designated person and, under penalty of perjury, attest to how the individual is related by blood to the designated person, or how the individual's association with the designated person is the equivalent of a family relationship. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
By authorizing expenditures from the continuously appropriated fund for these expanded purposes, this bill would make an appropriation.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
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- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Oct 13Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 13Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 22Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.To Governor
- Sep 10Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2831.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB590 Durazo et al. Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 9In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 590 Durazo Senate Third Reading By Wicks. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 9Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3076.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Sep 4Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 4Read third time and amended.Major
- Sep 2Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 29From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 29).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 20August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Jul 9From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jul 9Coauthors revised.
- Jun 5Referred to Com. on INS.Minor
- May 28In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading SB590 Durazo et al. Result: pass.Upper
- May 28Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1302.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- May 23Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- May 23From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1205.) (May 23).Minor
- May 16Set for hearing May 23.
- Apr 21April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 10Set for hearing April 21.
- Apr 9From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 739.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 3From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.Major
- Apr 1Set for hearing April 9.
- Mar 5Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.Minor
- Feb 21From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- Feb 20Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced