Oct 23, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail Maryland's Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program is nearing implementation, and counties face key decisions about how…
And family, it's been a really major focus for us, especially as counties are working to understand all of their options now and prepare for the current implementation timeline.
I think there are a few things we want to unpack today, but mainly the latest developments in the private insurance market and overall kind of where things stand as counties are preparing and really what they're thinking through.
And so if you're listening to this, you know, as a county employee, this is not just a benefits for employees kind of conversation.
For county governments, there's a lot of questions around budgeting, payroll administration, insurance coverage, how to prepare for a new program while still managing all the other aspects and responsibilities the counties have.
And there's been a lot of movement with all of this since it originally passed as well.
And while I feel like the county HR directors and I have talked about this every single day, at least since I've been at MAKO, but there are still a lot of questions and a lot of people to bring up to speed.
So if you're anything like me, I'm like that famous New Yorker cartoon where it's like New York is like the main thing and then California is out in the distance and everything else is just no man's land.
I know nothing about family and the stuff that you do, although I'm told it's great.
Can you give us a little bit of a background on, you know, what family is, how it originally passed, you know, kind of fill in those those gaps for us.
So, yeah, we briefly mentioned this in the beginning, but FAMILY stands for Family Medical Leave Insurance Program.
It was established by Maryland's 2022 Time to Care Act, and it creates a statewide paid leave program.
for eligible employees who need time away from work for qualifying family or medical reasons.
So that could be used to welcome new child, maternity, paternity, foster care, tend to a serious health condition, care for a loved one, or even like managing family needs related to deployment.
There are some circumstances I think intended to be more rare where it could be 24 weeks, but still being paid up to a thousand per week.
And family, it's been a really major focus for us, especially as counties are working to understand all of their options now and prepare for the current implementation timeline.
I think there are a few things we want to unpack today, but mainly the latest developments in the private insurance market and overall kind of where things stand as counties are preparing and really what they're thinking through.
And so if you're listening to this, you know, as a county employee, this is not just a benefits for employees kind of conversation.
For county governments, there's a lot of questions around budgeting, payroll administration, insurance coverage, how to prepare for a new program while still managing all the other aspects and responsibilities the counties have.
And there's been a lot of movement with all of this since it originally passed as well.
And while I feel like the county HR directors and I have talked about this every single day, at least since I've been at MAKO, but there are still a lot of questions and a lot of people to bring up to speed.
So if you're anything like me, I'm like that famous New Yorker cartoon where it's like New York is like the main thing and then California is out in the distance and everything else is just no man's land.
I know nothing about family and the stuff that you do, although I'm told it's great.
Can you give us a little bit of a background on, you know, what family is, how it originally passed, you know, kind of fill in those those gaps for us.
So, yeah, we briefly mentioned this in the beginning, but FAMILY stands for Family Medical Leave Insurance Program.
It was established by Maryland's 2022 Time to Care Act, and it creates a statewide paid leave program.
for eligible employees who need time away from work for qualifying family or medical reasons.
So that could be used to welcome new child, maternity, paternity, foster care, tend to a serious health condition, care for a loved one, or even like managing family needs related to deployment.
There are some circumstances I think intended to be more rare where it could be 24 weeks, but still being paid up to a thousand per week.
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