Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact amount of reimbursement required by local agencies and school districts, nor does it provide details on enforcement mechanisms for penalties related to perjury.

Paid Family Leave: Expanding Care for Designated Persons

The law expands eligibility for paid family leave benefits to include caring for seriously ill designated persons, who are individuals related by blood or with a close relationship equivalent to family.

What This Bill Does

• Expands the paid family leave program to allow workers to take time off to care for a seriously ill designated person starting July 1, 2028.
• Defines 'designated person' as someone who is related by blood or has an association equivalent to a family relationship.
• Requires individuals requesting benefits for the first time to identify and describe their relationship with the designated person under penalty of perjury.

Who It Names or Affects

• Workers who need time off to care for a seriously ill person related by blood or with an equivalent family relationship.
• Employers and their employees in California.

Terms To Know

Designated Person

An individual related by blood or having an association that is the equivalent of a family relationship, who can be cared for under expanded paid family leave benefits.

Family Care Leave

Time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or designated person.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is unclear how the expanded definition of 'designated person' will be interpreted in practice.
• Details on enforcement mechanisms for penalties related to perjury are not provided.

Official Summary Text

SB 590, Durazo.
Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.
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 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.

Current Bill Text

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