Family temporary disability insurance program: covered active duty.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact duration or conditions for wage replacement benefits.

Expanding Family Temporary Disability Insurance Program Coverage

This law changes the definition of 'covered active duty' to include training and domestic deployments for military members, allowing family members to receive temporary disability insurance 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 families who qualify under the expanded definition of 'covered active duty'.
• Workers enrolled in the family temporary disability insurance program.

Terms To Know

Covered Active Duty

Time when military members are on duty, including training and deployments within or outside the country.

Family Temporary Disability Insurance Program

A program that gives up to 8 weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who need time off for family care reasons related to a military member's active duty.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much the new coverage will cost or where additional funds will come from.
• It is unclear if all military members and their families will be eligible under the expanded definition of 'covered active duty'.

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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