State employees: active duty order: pay and benefits.

Existing law requires a state employee who, as a member of the California National Guard or a United States military reserve organization, is ordered to active duty by Presidential determination that it is necessary to augment the active forces for any operational mission, or when in time of national emergency declared by the President or otherwise authorized by law, to receive the difference between the amount of the state employee's military pay and the amount they would have received as a state employee, and all benefits the state employee would have received had they not served on active duty, as specified, for the duration of the event for a period not to exceed 180 days. Existing law limits the events in which a state employee may be ordered to active duty by the President to specified emergencies under federal law, including an emergency involving a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction. This bill would extend the period of pay and benefits for a state employee who is a member of the California National Guard or a United States military reserve organization and is ordered to active duty to 365 days, and would authorize the Governor to extend that period for up to an additional 1,460 days by executive order. The bill would remove the limitations regarding the specific events for which the President may order the state employee to active duty, but would retain the requirement that the order to active duty be pursuant to a Presidential determination that it is necessary to augment the active forces for any operational mission or a time of national emergency declared by the President or otherwise authorized by law.