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2019 Regular Session

House Bill 1137

Employers; require to provide leave to certain employees for adoption, pregnancy, childbirth and nursing an infant.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Workforce Development Committee on February 5, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED BY THE SAME EMPLOYER FOR AT LEAST TWELVE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS AS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, AS DETERMINED BY THE EMPLOYER AT THE JOB SITE OR LOCATION, MAY BE ABSENT FROM SUCH EMPLOYMENT FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED FOUR MONTHS FOR ADOPTION, PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND NURSING AN INFANT; TO PROVIDE THAT THE EMPLOYEE SHALL GIVE THREE MONTHS NOTICE BEFORE THE LEAVE STARTS TO HIS OR HER EMPLOYER IN ORDER TO RETAIN HIS OR HER SAME POSITION AFTER THE LEAVE PERIOD ENDS; TO PROVIDE THAT LEAVE GIVEN MAY BE WITH OR WITHOUT PAY AS DETERMINED BY THE EMPLOYER; TO PROVIDE FOR EXEMPTIONS TO THE THREE-MONTH RULE AND FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYERS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 21 to February 5, 2019, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 21 to Feb 5 · stopped15 days

Workforce DevelopmentJan 21 to Feb 5 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 21 – Feb 5

  1. Referred to the House committee on Workforce Development
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published