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CaliforniaSB 5902025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.

Sponsored By: Maria Elena Durazo (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.

Workers’ paid family leave pay and limits

Beginning January 1, 2025, weekly pay uses tiers. If your highest quarter wages are under $722.50, you get $50 per week. From $722.50 up to 70% of the state average quarterly wage, you get 90% of that quarter divided by 13. Above that, you get the larger of 70% of that quarter divided by 13 or 63% of the state average weekly wage, capped at the state workers’ comp weekly maximum. For one disability, total pay cannot exceed 8 times your weekly amount or your base‑period wages, and amounts round up to the next dollar. You can get no more than 8 paid weeks in any 12‑month period.

Eight weeks of paid family leave

The law provides up to eight weeks of wage replacement to care for a seriously ill family member, bond with a new child within one year of birth or placement, or handle a qualifying military exigency. Eligibility and exact payment amounts follow other state disability insurance rules.

Paid leave to care for a designated person

Beginning July 1, 2028, you can take paid family leave to care for a designated person. A designated person is someone related by blood or someone with a family‑like relationship. For your first request to care for that person, you must identify them and sign a statement under penalty of perjury explaining the relationship. You must still follow normal claim filing and certification rules.

Deadlines to file paid leave claims

You must file your claim no later than the 41st day after your first compensable day. The department can extend this deadline for good cause. If your first claim is incomplete, you must return the completed form within 10 days after the department mails it back, unless extended for good cause.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Maria Elena Durazo

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Timothy Grayson

    Democratic • Senate

  • Matt Haney

    Democratic • House

  • John Laird

    Democratic • Senate

  • Mark Mark González

    Democratic • House

  • Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh

    Republican • Senate

  • Liz Ortega

    Democratic • House

  • Sasha Renée Pérez

    Democratic • Senate

  • Susan Rubio

    Democratic • Senate

  • Thomas Umberg

    Democratic • Senate

  • Christopher Ward

    Democratic • House

  • Buffy Wicks

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 199 • No: 1

Senate vote • 9/10/2025

Item 76 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 40 • No: 0

House vote • 9/9/2025

Item 87 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 76 • No: 0

legislature vote • 8/29/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 14 • No: 1

legislature vote • 7/9/2025

Vote in CX28

Yes: 14 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/28/2025

Item 175 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 38 • No: 0

legislature vote • 5/23/2025

Vote in CS61

Yes: 6 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/21/2025

Vote in CS61

Yes: 6 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/9/2025

Vote in CS56

Yes: 5 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2025.

    10/13/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    10/13/2025legislature

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

    9/22/2025legislature

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2831.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

    9/10/2025Senate

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

    9/9/2025Senate

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3076.) Ordered to the Senate.

    9/9/2025House

  7. Ordered to third reading.

    9/4/2025House

  8. Read third time and amended.

    9/4/2025House

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    9/2/2025House

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 29).

    8/29/2025House

  11. August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

    8/20/2025House

  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    7/9/2025House

  13. Coauthors revised.

    7/9/2025House

  14. Referred to Com. on INS.

    6/5/2025House

  15. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

    5/28/2025House

  16. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1302.) Ordered to the Assembly.

    5/28/2025Senate

  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    5/23/2025Senate

  18. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1205.) (May 23).

    5/23/2025Senate

  19. Set for hearing May 23.

    5/16/2025Senate

  20. April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

    4/21/2025Senate

  21. Set for hearing April 21.

    4/10/2025Senate

  22. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 739.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    4/9/2025Senate

  23. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

    4/3/2025Senate

  24. Set for hearing April 9.

    4/1/2025Senate

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

    3/5/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    10/13/2025

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  • Enrolled

    9/13/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    9/4/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    4/3/2025

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  • Introduced

    2/20/2025

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