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H.B. 329 State Employee Maternity and Leave Amendments

Became lawWritten by Rep. Ariel Defay · carried in the Senate by Sen. Michael K. McKell

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

The bill would extend paid maternity leave for state employees from six to 12 weeks and add paid adoptive and foster leave for children six and under. It would also create an optional $3 million reimbursement pool for school districts and charter schools that choose to offer up to 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, and explicitly protect pumping breast milk in public.

Plain-English summary written by AI from the sponsor’s presentation in committee and on the floor. Check the official text below.

Official description
  • increases the amount of postpartum recovery leave that a state employer must provide a state employee from three to six weeks
  • requires certain state employers to provide six weeks of paid leave to a state employee who adopts a child under six years old
  • provides that paid leave for an adoption described above runs consecutive to the three weeks of paid leave that is currently available to a state employee who adopts a child under 18 years old
  • clarifies that adoption leave may be used at any point during the adoption process and is not limited to the finalization of an adoption
  • clarifies that a state employee's appointment as legal guardian of a child qualifies the state employee for parental leave
  • removes foster placement as an event making a state employee eligible for paid parental leave and creates a separate foster leave category with a four-week paid-leave duration
  • allows two state employees who jointly adopt or foster a child to share a single paid leave period rather than each receiving a separate leave entitlement
  • clarifies that a state employee may not use foster leave after a child is no longer in foster care with the state employee
  • allows a state employee to use foster leave on an intermittent basis
  • prohibits the combined use of parental leave, foster leave, and adoption leave for the same child
  • requires the Department of Human Resource Management to make rules to administer the paid leave types described above
  • increases the amount of foster leave that an LEA must provide an LEA employee from three to four weeks
  • requires an LEA to provide three weeks of paid leave to an LEA employee who adopts a child under six years old
  • provides that paid leave for an adoption described above runs consecutive to the three weeks of paid leave that is currently available to an LEA employee who adopts a child under 18 years old
  • amends the Breastfeeding Protection Act to include a woman's use of a breast pump
  • makes technical and conforming changes
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