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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 3302.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance.</ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Family temporary disability insurance program.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>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.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those definition provisions.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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Section 3302.1 of the
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(a)
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For the purposes of this chapter:
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(1)
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“Covered active duty” means, 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.
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(2)
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“Disability benefit period” with respect to any individual, means the period of unemployment beginning with the first day an
individual establishes a valid claim for family temporary disability insurance benefits to care for a seriously ill family member, to bond with a minor child during the first year after the birth or placement of the child 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.
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(A)
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Periods of family care leave for the same care recipient within a 12-month period shall be considered one disability benefit period.
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(B)
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Periods of disability for pregnancy, as defined in Section 2608, and periods of family care leave for bonding associated with the birth of that child shall be considered one disability benefit period.
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(b)
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This section shall become operative on January 1, 2021.
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