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Bill Employee benefits: Legislature: employees and officers: benefits. Existing law grants state employees certain health, dental, and vision benefits, and authorizes other public agencies, including the Legislature, to elect to contract for these benefits. Existing law, which is applicable to certain state employees, requires the state employer, upon the death of an employee while in state service, to continue to pay employer contributions for health, dental, and vision benefits for a period not to exceed 120 days, as specified. Existing law also requires in this context that the state employer provide certain information and notifications to surviving spouses and other eligible family members. us/states/ca California Legislature 20212022 SB 835 California SB 835 (20212022)
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California SB 835 (20212022) — Employee benefits: Legislature: employees and officers: benefits.

Existing law grants state employees certain health, dental, and vision benefits, and authorizes other public agencies, including the Legislature, to elect to contract for these benefits. Existing law, which is applicable to certain state employees, requires the state employer, upon the death of an employee while in state service, to continue to pay employer contributions for health, dental, and vision benefits for a period not to exceed 120 days, as specified. Existing law also requires in this context that the state employer provide certain information and notifications to surviving spouses and other eligible family members.

Version chain

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

  1. 01/06/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 03/15/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. 08/26/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB835 (committee substitute) — source
  5. 08/12/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Consent Calendar SB835 — 330 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 50 (pass) · upper
  • SB 835 Newman Consent Calendar Second Day — 760 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 150 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 70 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Newman — primary (person)
  • Cunningham — coauthor (person)
  • Dodd — coauthor (person)
  • Kamlager — coauthor (person)
  • Laird — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-01-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
  • 2022-01-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6.
  • 2022-03-09 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
  • 2022-03-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2022-04-07 Set for hearing April 18.
  • 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3415.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2022-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
  • 2022-05-02 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
  • 2022-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2022-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3646.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2022-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
  • 2022-05-27 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
  • 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2022-08-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5827.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2022-08-11 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  • 2022-08-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
  • 2022-08-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2022-08-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 189, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f00435a-b955-4ac6-a6a0-5f0728c83ebc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).