Family temporary disability insurance program: covered active duty.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact duration or amount of wage replacement benefits.

Expanding Family Temporary Disability Insurance Program Coverage

This law expands the definition of 'covered active duty' to include training and domestic deployments for military members, allowing family members to receive wage replacement benefits when needed.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the definition of 'covered active duty' to include training and deployments within the country.
• Expands coverage to state orders for reserve components of the Armed Forces.
• Uses money from an existing fund to pay for these new benefits.

Who It Names or Affects

• Military members and their families

Terms To Know

covered active duty

The specific duties of military personnel that qualify for certain family benefits.

reserve components

Parts of the U.S. Armed Forces that are not on full-time active duty but can be called up in times of need.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much money will be spent.
• It is unclear if there will be enough funds to cover all new cases.
• This law only applies to California residents and workers.

Official Summary Text

AB 2054, as amended, Gipson.
Family temporary disability insurance
program.
program: covered active duty.
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.
Existing law, the family temporary disability insurance program, provides up to 8 weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or domestic partner, or to bond with a minor child within one year of birth or
placement in connection with foster care or adoption, or to participate in a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of the individual’s spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the Armed Forces of the United States. Existing law defines
certain terms for these purposes.
“covered active duty” to mean, with respect to a member of the regular Armed Forces of the United States, duty during the deployment of the member with the regular armed forces to a foreign country and, with respect to a member of the reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States, duty during the deployment of the member of those reserve components to a foreign country under a federal call or order to active duty.
This bill would
make a nonsubstantive change to those
expand the
definition
provisions.
of “covered active duty” to additionally include duty during training, deployment other than deployment to a foreign country, and, with respect to a member of the reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States, a call or order to state active duty. By authorizing expenditures from the continuously appropriated fund for these expanded purposes, this bill would make an appropriation.

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