republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-667.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disability insurance: eligibility: waiting period."
description: "(1) Under existing law, a disabled individual is eligible to receive disability benefits equal to 17 of his or her weekly benefit amount for each full day during which he or she is unemployed due to a disability if the Director of Employment Development makes specified findings, including that the individual has been unemployed and disabled for a waiting period of 7 consecutive days during each disability benefit period. Existing law provides that during this 7-day waiting period, no disability benefits are payable."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 667"
citation: "California SB 667 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disability insurance: eligibility: waiting period."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49dfbdc1-b6e3-400d-a776-d8b64edb0c5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667"
source_hash: "69d866282f38ab51d6e5edcf2c0cb9b5a7e6c4d2e972e492cc744d5c8821090c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 667 (20152016) — Disability insurance: eligibility: waiting period.

(1) Under existing law, a disabled individual is eligible to receive disability benefits equal to 17 of his or her weekly benefit amount for each full day during which he or she is unemployed due to a disability if the Director of Employment Development makes specified findings, including that the individual has been unemployed and disabled for a waiting period of 7 consecutive days during each disability benefit period. Existing law provides that during this 7-day waiting period, no disability benefits are payable.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667&version=20150SB66799INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667&version=20150SB66798AMD)
3. **05/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667&version=20150SB66797AMD)
4. **09/28/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667&version=20150SB66795CHP)
5. **SB667** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667)
6. **09/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB667&version=20150SB66796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 667 Jackson Senate Third Reading By DALY — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-27** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2015-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 729.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-24** Set for hearing May 4.
- **2015-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 884.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-13** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-05-18** From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Jackson.
- **2015-05-18** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Ordered to second reading.
- **2015-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1119.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-19** August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-08-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2721.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
- **2015-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 357, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49dfbdc1-b6e3-400d-a776-d8b64edb0c5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).