District of ColumbiaD.C. emergency law barred disability pay cuts tied to paid leave
Until May 14, 2026, D.C.'s emergency law barred insurers from reducing eligible people's temporary disability pay because of expected or received D.C. paid leave.
What it does
Until May 14, 2026, insurers could not cut eligible people's temporary disability pay because they might get or had received D.C. paid leave. Policies written outside D.C. were covered.
Argument forEligible people may have avoided a cut to temporary disability pay when they expected or received D.C. paid leave.
Argument againstInsurers might have paid more on some covered claims because they could not subtract expected or received D.C. paid leave from disability payments.
More detail
Insurers could not reduce temporary disability payments because an eligible person might get or had received D.C. paid leave. The rule covered individual and group temporary or short-term disability policies, wherever they were issued, written, or delivered. The ban applied to reductions based on estimated or actual benefits under D.C.'s paid leave law. The act took effect after the Mayor approved it on February 13, 2026, and expired May 14, 2026.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Feb 27Act A26-0260 Published in DC Register Vol 73 and Page 002689, Expires on May 14, 2026Latest
- Feb 19Returned from Mayor
- Feb 13Signed by the Mayor and Enacted with Act Number A26-0260, Expires on May 14, 2026Became Law
- Feb 9Transmitted to Mayor, Response Due on Feb 24, 2026To Governor
- Feb 3Final ReadingMinor
- Vote recorded Final Reading. Result: pass.Legislature
- Feb 3Retained by the Council
- Jan 30B26-0573 Introduced by Councilmember Lewis George at Office of the SecretaryIntroduced
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