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type: "Bill"
title: "Paid family leave: qualifying exigency."
description: "Existing law establishes within the state disability insurance program a family temporary disability insurance program, also known as the Paid Family Leave program, for the provision of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a minor child within one year of birth or placement, as specified, and, on and after January 1, 2021, to take time off to participate in a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of the individuals' spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the Armed Forces of the United States. Existing law defines terms for paid family leave purposes, including defining the terms \"care recipient,\" \"care provider,\" and \"family care leave.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2399"
citation: "California AB 2399 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Paid family leave: qualifying exigency."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-18"
last_action: "2020-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/719032d2-ed35-42ff-9b4a-47df242371d5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2399"
source_hash: "b18f76f621a88919392aaf9185182124f99a3cdc1b5d5ae87d9b9975ea0ddea4"
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 AB 2399 (20192020) — Paid family leave: qualifying exigency.
Existing law establishes within the state disability insurance program a family temporary disability insurance program, also known as the Paid Family Leave program, for the provision of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a minor child within one year of birth or placement, as specified, and, on and after January 1, 2021, to take time off to participate in a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of the individuals' spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the Armed Forces of the United States. Existing law defines terms for paid family leave purposes, including defining the terms "care recipient," "care provider," and "family care leave."
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2399&version=20190AB239999INT)
2. **09/30/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2399&version=20190AB239997CHP)
3. **AB2399** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2399)
4. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2399&version=20190AB239998ENR)
## Votes
- AB 2399 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2399 INS. — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2020-03-12** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4602.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4374.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 348, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/719032d2-ed35-42ff-9b4a-47df242371d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).