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SB-8 • 2026

Peace officers: injury or illness: leaves of absence.

Peace officers: injury or illness: leaves of absence.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Ashby
Last action
2025-10-13
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Peace Officers: Injury or Illness Leave

This law allows certain peace officers who work full-time for an eighth class county to take time off without losing pay if they get hurt or sick on the job.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands leave of absence benefits for peace officers who are injured or ill from their duties.
  • Ensures that these peace officers do not lose salary while taking leave due to injury or illness.
  • Specifies that this leave is in place of workers' compensation payments.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Peace officers employed on a regular, full-time basis by counties classified as the eighth class.

Terms To Know

workers’ compensation
A system that requires employers to pay for medical care and lost wages when an employee gets hurt or sick from work.
eighth class county
A specific classification of counties based on population size, typically smaller counties.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The law does not specify the exact number of peace officers who will be affected.
  • It is unclear how many counties classified as eighth class are in the state.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-13 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-13 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-03 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2770.) Ordered to the Senate.

  6. 2025-07-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  7. 2025-07-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 9).

  8. 2025-06-05 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on INS.

  9. 2025-05-28 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  10. 2025-05-27 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1236.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  11. 2025-03-27 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  12. 2025-03-26 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 567.) (March 26).

  13. 2025-03-18 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing March 26.

  14. 2025-01-29 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

  15. 2024-12-03 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 2.

  16. 2024-12-02 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 8, Ashby.
Peace officers: injury or illness: leaves of absence.
Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, which generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers’ compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of and in the course of their employment.
Existing law entitles, among others, local law enforcement and probation officers and firefighters employed on a regular full-time basis to a leave of absence without loss of salary while disabled by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of their duties. Existing law provides that a leave of absence under those provisions is in lieu of temporary disability payments or maintenance allowance payments otherwise payable under the workers’ compensation system.
This bill would expand these provisions to entitle specified peace officers who are employed on a regular, full-time basis by a county of the eighth class, as defined, to this leave of absence.

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