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SB 590STATE · CaliforniaIntroduced

Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.

Voted 10/13/2025View source

Summary

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.

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Roll-call record

How representatives voted

113 yea·0 nay

Docket history

Action history

  1. 10/13/2025Approved by the Governor.
  2. 10/13/2025Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2025.
  3. 9/22/2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  4. 9/10/2025Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2831.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. 9/9/2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3076.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. 9/9/2025In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. 9/4/2025Read third time and amended.
  8. 9/4/2025Ordered to third reading.
  9. 9/2/2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. 8/29/2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 29).