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(a) “Assistive animal” means an animal that is necessary as a reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability.
(A) “Guide dog,” as defined at Civil Code section 54.1, trained to guide a blind or visually impaired person.
(B) “Signal dog,” as defined at Civil Code section 54.1, or other animal trained to alert a deaf or hearing impaired person to sounds.
(C) “Service dog,” as defined at Civil Code section 54.1, or other animal individually trained to the requirements of a person with a disability.
(D) “Support dog” or other animal that provides emotional, cognitive, or other similar support to a person with a disability, including, but not limited to, traumatic brain injuries or mental disabilities, such as major depression.
(B) does not engage in behavior that endangers the health or safety of the individual with a disability or others in the workplace.
(3) A “support animal” may constitute a reasonable accommodation in certain circumstances. A support animal is one that provides emotional, cognitive, or other similar support to a person with a disability, including, but not limited to, traumatic brain injuries or mental disabilities, such as major depression. As in other contexts, what constitutes a reasonable accommodation requires an individualized analysis reached through the interactive process.
(b) “Business Necessity,” as used in this article regarding medical or psychological examinations, means that the need for the disability inquiry or medical examination is vital to the business.
(c) “CFRA” means the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act of 1993. (California Family Rights Act, Gov. Code §§ 12945.1 and 12945.2.) As used in this article “CFRA leave” means medical leave taken pursuant to CFRA.
(1) “Mental disability,” as defined at Government Code section 12926, includes, but is not limited to, having any mental or psychological disorder or condition that limits a major life activity. “Mental disability” includes, but is not limited to, emotional or mental illness, intellectual or cognitive disability (formerly referred to as “mental retardation”), organic brain syndrome, or specific learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, and chronic or episodic conditions such as clinical depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder.
(C) “Disability” includes, but is not limited to, deafness, blindness, partially or completely missing limbs, mobility impairments requiring the use of a wheelchair, cerebral palsy, and chronic or episodic conditions such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, epilepsy, seizure disorder, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and heart and circulatory disease.
(3) A “special education” disability is any other recognized health impairment or mental or psychological disorder not described in section 11065(d) of this article, that requires or has required in the past special education or related services. A special education disability may include a “specific learning disability,” manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning or mathematical abilities. A specific learning disability can include conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia. A special education disability does not include special education or related services unrelated to a health impairment or mental or psychological disorder, such as those for English language acquisition by persons whose first language was not English.
(4) A “record or history of disability” includes previously having, or being misclassified as having, a record or history of a mental or physical disability or special education health impairment of which the employer or other covered entity is aware.
2. That is known to be a cause of a disease or disorder in a person or the person's offspring, or that is associated with a statistically increased risk of development of a disease or disorder, though presently not associated with any disease or disorder symptoms.
(8) A “Disability” is also any definition of “disability” used in the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto, that would result in broader protection of the civil rights of individuals with a mental or physical disability or medical condition than provided by the FEHA. If so, the broader ADA protections or coverage shall be deemed incorporated by reference into, and shall prevail over conflicting provisions of, the FEHA's definition of disability.
(B) conditions that are mild, which do not limit a major life activity, as determined on a case-by-case basis. These excluded conditions have little or no residual effects, such as the common cold; seasonal or common influenza; minor cuts, sprains, muscle aches, soreness, bruises, or abrasions; non-migraine headaches, and minor and non-chronic gastrointestinal disorders.
(e) “Essential job functions” means the fundamental job duties of the employment position the applicant or employee with a disability holds or desires.
(A) The employer's or other covered entity's judgment as to which functions are essential.
(B) Accurate, current written job descriptions.
(D) The legitimate business consequences of not requiring the incumbent to perform the function.
(E) Job descriptions or job functions contained in a collective bargaining agreement.
(F) The work experience of past incumbents in the job.
(H) Reference to the importance of the performance of the job function in prior performance reviews.
(3) “Essential functions” do not include the marginal functions of the position. “Marginal functions” of an employment position are those that, if not performed, would not eliminate the need for the job or that could be readily performed by another employee or that could be performed in an alternative way.
(f) “Family member,” for purposes of discrimination on the basis of a genetic characteristic or genetic information, includes the individual's relations from the first to fourth degree. This would include children, siblings, half-siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, great aunts and uncles, first cousins, children of first cousins, great grandparents, and great-great grandparents.
(g) “FMLA” means the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and its implementing regulations. For purposes of this section only, “FMLA leave” means medical leave taken pursuant to FMLA.
(h) “Genetic information,” as defined at Government Code section 12926, means genetic information derived from an individual's or the individual's family members' genetic tests, receipt of genetic services, participation in genetic services clinical research or the manifestation of a disease or disorder in an individual's family members.
(3) a health care provider from whom an employer, other covered entity, or a group health plan's benefits manager will accept medical certification of the existence of a health condition to substantiate a claim for benefits.
(j) “Interactive process,” as set forth more fully at California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 11069, means timely, good faith communication between the employer or other covered entity and the applicant or employee or, when necessary because of the disability or other circumstances, his or her representative to explore whether or not the applicant or employee needs reasonable accommodation for the applicant's or employee's disability to perform the essential functions of the job, and, if so, how the person can be reasonably accommodated.
(k) “Job-related,” as used in sections 11070, 11071 and 11072 means tailored to assess the employee's ability to carry out the essential functions of the job or to determine whether the employee poses a danger to the employee or others due to disability.
(l) “Major life activities” shall be construed broadly and include physical, mental, and social activities, especially those life activities that affect employability or otherwise present a barrier to employment or advancement.
(1) Major life activities include, but are not limited to, caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, sitting, reaching, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, interacting with others, and working.
(2) Major life activities include the operation of major bodily functions, including functions of the immune system, special sense organs and skin, normal cell growth, digestive, genitourinary, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, cardiovascular, endocrine, hemic, lymphatic, musculoskeletal, and reproductive functions. Major bodily functions include the operation of an individual organ within a body system.
(3) An impairment “limits” a major life activity if it makes the achievement of the major life activity difficult.
(A) Whether achievement of the major life activity is “difficult” is an individualized assessment, which may consider what most people in the general population can perform with little or no difficulty, what members of the individual's peer group can perform with little or no difficulty, and/or what the individual would be able to perform with little or no difficulty in the absence of disability.
(B) Whether an impairment limits a major life activity will usually not require scientific, medical, or statistical analysis. Nothing in this paragraph is intended, however, to prohibit the presentation of scientific, medical, or statistical evidence, where appropriate.
(C) “Limits” shall be determined without regard to mitigating measures or reasonable accommodations, unless the mitigating measure itself limits a major life activity.
(D) Working is a major life activity, regardless of whether the actual or perceived working limitation affects a particular employment or class or broad range of employments.
(E) An impairment that is episodic or in remission is a disability if it would limit a major life activity when active.
(m) A “medical or psychological examination” is a procedure or test performed by a health care provider that seeks or obtains information about an individual's physical or mental disabilities or health.
(1) Medications; medical supplies, equipment, or appliances; low-vision devices (defined as devices that magnify, enhance, or otherwise augment a visual image, but not including ordinary eyeglasses or contact lenses); prosthetics, including limbs and devices; hearing aids, cochlear implants, or other implantable hearing devices; mobility devices; oxygen therapy equipment and supplies; and assistive animals, such as guide dogs.
(2) Use of assistive technology or devices, such as wheelchairs, braces, and canes.
(4) Learned behavioral or adaptive neurological modifications.
(5) Surgical interventions, except for those that permanently eliminate a disability.
(6) Psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, or physical therapy.
(o) “Qualified individual,” for purposes of disability discrimination under California Code of Regulations, title 2, section 11066, is an applicant or employee who has the requisite skill, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of the employment position such individual holds or desires, and who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of such position.
(q) “Sexual behavior disorders,” as used in this article, refers to pedophilia, exhibitionism, and voyeurism.
Note: Authority cited: Section 12935(a), Government Code. Reference: Sections 12920, 12921, 12926, 12926.1, 12940, 12945.1 and 12945.2, Government Code; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. §12101, et seq.), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and its implementing regulations at 29 C.F.R. § 1630 et seq.; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.) and its implementing regulations at 29 C.F.R. § 825 et seq.; and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.) and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. § 300.8 et seq.
1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering former section 7293.6 to new section 11065 and amending section filed 10-3-2013 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2013, No. 40).

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