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California

SB 951

2022 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave, Paid Sick Leave


STATUS: Enacted

Increases wage replacement rates for State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) to make these critical programs accessible to all Californians.

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Colorado

SB 19-188

2019 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

The Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act creates the family and medical leave insurance program to provide partial, wage-replacement benefits based on an employee's yearly earnings for up to twelve weeks to an elegible individual who takes leave from work to care for a new child or a family member with a serious health condition.

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Washington

WA SB 5975

2017 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

Creates and implements a paid family and medical leave insurance program. An employee is elegible to receive up to twelve weeks of family leave to bond with new child (birth, adoption, foster); care for family member with serious health condition; qualifying exigency arising out of family member being on active duty (or having been notified of an impending call or order to active duty).

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DC Law 21-264

2016 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

The Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 provides up to: 2 weeks to care for an employee's pregnancy; 12 weeks to bond with a new child.; 12 weeks to care for a family member with a serious health condition and to care for own serious health condition, explicitly including stillbirth and miscarriage.

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New York

NY S 6406

2016 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

The Paid Family Leave Benefits Law allows individuals to receive sixty-seven percent of their average weekly wage for no more than twelve weeks in which an employee cannot perform their work duties in order to care for a family member, to bond with a child during the first twelve months of the child's birth or the child's placement for adoption or foster care, or because of any qualifying exigency arising when a spouse or partner is on active duty without fear of being terminated, retaliation, or losing any health benefits afforded by employer.

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New Jersey

NJ Stat. Ann. § 43:21-38

2008 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

43:21-25 states that any individual elegible for benefits during a period of family temporary disability leave shall recieve 6 times their weekly benefit amount or one third of their total wages, whichever is lesser, under a private or state plan of disability benefits to care for a seriously ill or injured family member, or bond with a newborn, newly adopted or newly placed foster child for a maximum of twelve consecutive weeks in a calendar year. This bill was expanded in 2019 by A3975, which increased the paid leave to 12 weeks from July 1, 2020.

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California

CA SB 1661

2002 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

The legislation provides up to six weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off of work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, or domestic partner, or to bond with a new child. The law took effect July 1, 2004. In 2013, SB 770 expanded California’s PFL benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling. In 2019, SB 83 extended the PFL from six to eight weeks.

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California

CA SB 83

2019 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

This legislation extends the Paid Family Leave from six weeks to eight weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a new child.

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Rhode Island

RI HB 6090, § 1

2019 | Fair Pay, Leave, Paid Family Leave


STATUS: Enacted

To increase the temporary caregiver benefits to six (6) weeks in a benefit year starting January 1, 2022 and would increase temporary caregiver benefits to eight (8) Weeks in a benefit year beginning January 1, 2023.

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