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Bill	Unemployment insurance: voluntary plans.	Existing law provides for the payment of disability compensation for the wage loss sustained by an individual unemployed because of sickness or injury, and finances that compensation by means of employee contributions at specified rates to the Disability Fund. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to approve any voluntary plan, subject to specified exceptions, for disability if the director finds that there is at least one employee and that specified requirements are met, including, among other things, that the plan will be in effect for a period of not less than one year, and, thereafter, continuously unless the director finds that the employer or a majority of its employees employed in the state covered by the plan have given notice of withdrawal from the plan.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2778	California AB 2778 (20092010)	bill	Unemployment insurance: voluntary plans.	enacted	Committee on Insurance	7	24	6	2010-03-01	2010-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/61599923-1194-41e0-8892-df8e97919ccc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2778	d523673b81821a5b802c13b69b79ba6b0572c804b0643cbad5d1e187cf649211	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2778 (20092010) — Unemployment insurance: voluntary plans.

Existing law provides for the payment of disability compensation for the wage loss sustained by an individual unemployed because of sickness or injury, and finances that compensation by means of employee contributions at specified rates to the Disability Fund. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to approve any voluntary plan, subject to specified exceptions, for disability if the director finds that there is at least one employee and that specified requirements are met, including, among other things, that the plan will be in effect for a period of not less than one year, and, thereafter, continuously unless the director finds that the employer or a majority of its employees employed in the state covered by the plan have given notice of withdrawal from the plan.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 03/01/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/29/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/11/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2778 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2778 INS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By SOLORIO — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB2778 Committee on INS. (Coto) — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2778 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2010-03-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-03-02 From printer. May be heard in committee April 1.
• 2010-03-25 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2010-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-04-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2010-05-10 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-05-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-05-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-20 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 5343.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-06-10 Referred to Com. on B., F. & I. referral-committee
• 2010-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., F. & I. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-07-01 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. committee-passage
• 2010-08-03 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4376.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6153.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
• 2010-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 399, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61599923-1194-41e0-8892-df8e97919ccc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).