California Code, Government Code - GOV § 19880

(1) The employee has made a claim for benefits as required by authorized regulations.

(2) A disabled employee has been disabled for a waiting period of seven consecutive days during each disability benefit period, with respect to which waiting period no benefits under this article are payable, except for confinement in a hospital or nursing home for at least one day.

(3) The employee has exhausted all the leave to which the employee was entitled under Article 3 (commencing with Section 19859). A person who elects to use vacation credits or sick leave credits prior to receiving nonindustrial disability benefits is not required to exhaust the leave, as described in this subdivision, if the person is a permanent employee who meets any of the following criteria:

(4) Except for an individual described in Section 2709 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, a disabled individual has submitted to any reasonable examinations as the Director of Employment Development may require for the purpose of determining benefit eligibility.

(5) A disabled person has filed a certificate described in Section 2708 or 2709 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.

(6) Except as otherwise provided, a disabled person meets, in all other respects, the eligibility requirements imposed on individuals by Part 2 (commencing with Section 2601) of Division 1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code for receipt of unemployment compensation disability benefits.