Plain English Breakdown
The official source confirms all claims in the candidate explanation regarding disability benefits and camp regulations are supported by the bill summary.
AB-933: Disability Benefits After Childbirth and Camp Safety Rules
This law guarantees at least 12 weeks of disability benefits for people disabled by childbirth and adds safety rules to day camps.
What This Bill Does
- Requires that individuals eligible for disability benefits due to pregnancy or childbirth receive those benefits for no less than 12 weeks after the birth.
- Renames 'organized camp' to 'organized residential camp' in state law.
- Creates a new definition for 'organized day camp' as a site with programs for at least five children ages 3 to 17 that operates more than three hours per day on at least five days within a year.
- Applies existing health and fire safety rules from residential camps to organized day camps, except for rules about overnight stays.
- Makes it a crime (misdemeanor) to operate an organized day camp without meeting required building standards.
Who It Names or Affects
- Individuals who are unable to work due to illness or injury from pregnancy or childbirth and receive disability benefits.
- Operators of sites that run programs for children ages 3 to 17 during the day (organized day camps).
- Local health officers responsible for enforcing building standards at these camp locations.
Terms To Know
- Organized residential camp
- The new legal name for what was previously called an 'organized camp,' typically involving overnight stays.
- Organized day camp
- A site providing social, educational, or recreational programs to at least five children ages 3 to 17 that operates more than three hours a day on at least five days in a year.
- Living experience
- An overnight camp program lasting for five days or more.
Limits and Unknowns
- The rules added to organized day camps will stop working once the Department of Social Services creates new regulations based on a required report.
- The text does not specify an exact date when this law takes effect, only that it passed the Legislature.