330 | 2024 Cal-Peculiarities ©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com 5 Unemp. Ins. Code § 1256. 6 Lab. Code §§ 233, 245.5(c)(4). 7 See Koebke v. Bernardo Heights Country Club, 36 Cal. 4th 824 (2005). 8 Fam. Code § 297.5(a) (“Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.”). 9 See https://ca.db101.org/ca/situations/workandbenefits/rights/program2c.htm (last visited Mar. 21, 2024). 10 Rev. & Tax. Code § 17021.7. 11 Ins. Code § 10121.7(f). 12 Id.; see also Ins. Code § 10112.5(a)(2)(B). 13 Health & Safety Code §§ 1374.58, 1367.30; Ins. Code §§ 10112.5 & 10121.7. The provisions requiring equal domestic partner coverage appear within the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, which makes a willful violation of the act a crime. 14 Id. 15 570 U.S. 744 (2013). 16 576 U.S. 644 (2015). 17 Pub. L. No. 117-228 (Dec. 13, 2022). 18 388 U.S. 1 (1967). 19 Health & Safety Code §§ 1374.73-1374.74; Ins. Code § 10144.51. 20 Id. 21 California Assembly Bill No. 796 (2016 Regular Session). 22 SB 805, 2023, amending Health & Safety Code § 1374.73, Ins. Code § 10144.51 and Welf. & Inst. Code § 4686.4. 23 Id. 24 Ins. Code §§ 10123.865, 10123.866. 25 Id. 26 Id. 27 Gov’t Code § 12945(a)(2). Employers may recover from employees the premium paid to maintain their coverage during a leave to the extent that (1) employees fail to return to work after the pregnancy disability leave and (2) the failure to return from leave is for a reason other than either (a) taking leave under the California Family Rights Act or (b) the continuation, recurrence, or onset of a condition that entitles the employee to a pregnancy disability leave or other circumstances beyond the employee’s control. 28 Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-260 (Dec. 27, 2020). 29 Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, Health & Safety Code §§ 1340 et seq.; AB 72 (Stats. 2016, Ch. 492), Health & Safety Code §§ 1371.30, 1371.31, 1371.9. 30 Id. 31 AB 716, 2023, adding Health & Safety Code §§ 1371.56, 1797.124, and 1797.233 and repealing § 1376.11, and adding Ins. Code § 10126.66 and repealing § 10352. 32 Id. 33 Id. 34 Id. 35 29 U.S.C. § 1161. 36 29 U.S.C. § 1162. 37 Id. 38 Health & Safety Code §§ 1366.20 et seq.; Ins. Code §§ 10128.50 et seq. (California Continuation Benefits Replacement Act, or “CalCOBRA”). 39 Health & Safety Code §§ 1366.21(e), 1366.27(a)(1); Ins. Code §§ 10128.50(b), 10128.57(a)(1). 40 Health & Safety Code § 1366.29; Ins. Code § 10128.59. 41 Lab. Code § 2807. 42 Health & Safety Code § 1373.6. 43 Id. 44 San Francisco CA Admin. Code ch. 14, §§ 14.1-14.7.
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