State             

Summary

CA AB 317
Pending

Excludes absences due to H1N1 from school attendance calculations for state apportionment; establish waiver process if more than 50 students miss class due to H1N1.

CT HB 6678
Enacted

Amends definition of infectious disease to list "novel influenza A virus infections with pandemic potential" instead of pandemic flu.

HI HB 2131
Did not pass

Requires gasoline vendors to provide customers with access to water to allow them to wash their hands after handling the pump, to avoid spread of H1N1.

Prevention

IL HB 4607
Pending

Includes H1N1 vaccine within existing mercury-free vaccine laws.

IL HJR 73
Pending

Urges state agencies, their representatives and private media outlets to use the phrase "2009 H1N1 Influenza" instead of "Swine Flu."

LA SCR 19/
SR 14
Adopted

Encourages the state and local governments and agencies and public and private hospitals to work together to prepare citizens to respond to the H1N1 virus.

ME SB 630
Did not pass

Legislation to create mandatory sick leave, proposed as emergency order due to H1N1. See sick leave legislation for more details.

Sick Leave

MA HB 4137/
SB 2070
Pending

Contains line-item appropriation for costs associated with H1N1 response.

Appropriation

MN HB 2400/
SB 2159
Did not pass

Provides a property tax credit for property used in a farm operation that incurred losses due to H1N1.

MN HB 2605
Did not pass

Prohibits terminating an employee on the basis of absences due to the employee caring for someone diagnosed with H1N1 or whose school or child care facility was closed due to H1N1.

Education/
Sick Leave

MN HB 2401/
SB 2151
Did not pass

Appropriates $25 million in grants to pork producers whose revenue has been hurt due to bad publicity resulting from the H1N1 virus.

NY AB 8710
Enacted

Exempts days missed due to closure as a result of H1N1 flu virus from minimum day requirements in public school aid calculation. Pending legislation A8554, S5462 and S5912 also relate to school closures due to H1N1.

NY AB 9156/
SB 6202
Pending

Requires employers with at least ten employees to post approved signs to inform employees of H1N1 prevention strategies in the workplace.

NY AB 9244
NY SB 6247
Pending

Requires the Commissioner of Education, in conjunction with the Commissioner of Health, to create rules and regulations concerning school district communications on H1N1.

OH HCR 21
Pending

Requests that Congress act to denounce the actions of the Russian Federation for imposing a ban on American pork products in response to the outbreak of H1N1, as it is not a food-borne illness.

OH HB 357
Pending

Concerns the declaration of a health exigency. When a health exigency is declared, an "appointing authority" may require an employee to leave the workplace if they display one of the listed symptoms, to be reinstated when no symptoms are present. Proposed as emergency measure due to threat of H1N1.

PA HR 509
Adopted

Expresses support for influenza prevention efforts, especially H1N1.

PA HR 525
Adopted

Designates October 2009 through January 2010 as H1N1 Virus Awareness Season and encourages Pennsylvanians to receive the H1N1 vaccine.

TX HB 4586
Enacted

Includes additional appropriation for costs associated with H1N1 (Swine) Flu.

WA HB 2764
Did not pass

Prohibits employer from disciplining an employee for an absence due to influenza-like symptoms.

Sick Leave

WI AJR 71
Adopted

Urges state agencies, their representatives and private media outlets to use the phrase "2009 H1N1 Influenza" instead of "Swine Flu."

WI AJR 94
Did not pass

Extends declared state of public health emergency related to H1N1.

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Summary

CA SCR 21
Enacted

Reauthorizes a joint committee on emergency management with jurisdiction over pandemic flu.

CA SB 769
Pending

Appropriates, as part of supplemental appropriations for pandemic flu, money to expand California Health Alert Network or a similar communication network between the Department of Health and every acute care hospital and primary care clinic in the state.

CA AB 1225
Pending

Provides guidelines for emergency preparedness activities related to infectious diseases including pandemic flu.

Emergency Preparedness

CT SB 1010
Enacted

Requires hospitals to notify emergency responders that they treated a patient with an infectious disease including pandemic flu.

GA HB 64
Enacted

Allows a wider range of medical professionals to sign a death certificate in the event of a declared state of emergency.

GA HB 217
Enacted

Allows physicians to prescribe influenza vaccine to groups of people to be administered by pharmacists or nurses as part of a protocol agreement.

IL HB 342
Enacted

Requires facilities licensed by the Department of Health to implement a vaccination program offering employees the opportunity to be vaccinated against seasonal or novel/pandemic flu viruses.

KS SR 1876
Adopted

Extends flu vaccination season.

LA HB 1
Enacted

Appropriations bill includes line-item for pandemic flu preparedness.

MA HB 4129
Enacted

Budget includes appropriation of $1,133,713 for Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.

MD HB 100
Enacted

Appropriates supplemental funding towards pandemic influenza medical surge capacity and capability.

MI SCR 29
Pending

Supports first responders personal emergency preparedness plans so that concerns over family do not cause a distraction from public services during an emergency.

Emergency Preparedness

MN SB 1462
Enacted

Creates an alternative, expedited system for mass dispensing drugs to combat pandemic influenza or another emergency event.

Emergency Preparedness

MS HCR 85
Adopted

Extends flu vaccination season.

MS SB 2768
Did not pass

Allows state to borrow funds, temporarily, if facing a cash flow shortage in time of pandemic flu outbreak.

Appropriation

NY SB 1561
Pending

Creates a Pandemic Preparedness Task Force.

NY AB 154
Enacted

Includes a line-item to appropriate funds for emergency preparedness and to stockpile medicine and supplies necessary in the event of pandemic flu.

OK HB 1678
Enacted

Provides protection from legal liability for those providing volunteer medical service under the direction of the government during a declared emergency.

PA HB 492
Pending

Establishes the Public Health Emergency Planning Commission and provide for various measures to plan for and respond to a public health emergency.

PA SB 850
Enacted

Appropriations bill includes federal appropriation of $2 million for avian flu surveillance. Directs that federal funds for emergency assistance be placed into the general fund and provides for funds that the governor can disperse without legislative approval during an emergency.

PA SB 1042
Enacted

Requires the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to provide semiannual reports on grants distributed using federal funding.

SC HB 3393
Enacted

Expands access to vaccination in South Carolina through the authorization process for physicians.

SC HB 3560
Enacted

Appropriations would require the Department of Health and Environmental Control to assess the ability of the state to respond and stockpile medicine and supplies to improve state readiness in the event of pandemic flu.

TN SJR 85
Adopted

Urges the Department of Health to review and enhance activities to promote childhood vaccination for influenza annually and in the event of a pandemic event.

TX SB 1
Enacted

Allows Department of State Health Services to draw on appropriated funds to pursue federal funding to purchase antivirals.

WA HB 1244/
HB 1694
Enacted

Appropriates $1 million in FY2008 to stockpile antiviral medication on one-time basis.

State

Bill Summary

Provides that a hospital may offer its health care workers any vaccination, test, or prophylactic measure required or recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pursuant to standing orders approved by the hospital's medical staff.

IN HB 1592
Enacted

Requires long term care health facilities to provide or make available influenza immunizations to employees who have direct contact with patients; provided that there is an adequate vaccine supply. Health facilities cannot require an employee to receive a flu immunization if (1) written documentation shows that the individual already received the required immunization ; (2) the immunization is medically contraindicated, meaning that a vaccine would be detrimental to an individual's health because of a medical condition of the individual; (3) receiving the immunization is against the employee's religious beliefs; or (4) the employee refuses to permit the immunization after being fully informed of the health risks.

IL HB 342
Enacted

Requires facilities licensed by the Department of Health to implement a vaccination program offering employees the opportunity to be vaccinated against seasonal or novel/pandemic flu viruses.

This bill amends existing Illinois laws to provide that specified public health measures also may be used by the Illinois Department of Public Health to respond to chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents or events. Public health measures in existing Illinois law (20 ILCS 2305/2) provide that the Department of Public Health may order the administration of vaccines, medications, or other treatments to persons as necessary in order to prevent the probable spread of a dangerously contagious or infectious disease. A vaccine, medication, or other treatment to be administered must not be such as is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm to the affected individual. An individual may refuse to receive vaccines, medications, or other treatments.

MA HB 2100
Pending

For the protection of influenza in health care workers and high risk patients, would require that any physician, nurse, or health care worker, who is employed in a health care setting or who provides health care to persons at high risk for influenza, shall receive an annual influenza vaccine unless exempted for any of the following conditions: (1) medical or religious reasons; (2) if an individual refuses the vaccine after being fully informed of the health risks of not being immunized; or (3) due to an inadequate vaccine supply.   Would also require elder care facilities to offer and, upon consent, to administer annual influenza vaccines to their clients.

MA HB 2149
Pending

Would provide that no license for a convalescent or nursing home, infirmary maintained in a town, rest home, charitable home for the aged or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded could be renewed, beginning on January 1, 2010, unless there shall be first submitted to the department by the authorities in charge of the facility a certificate verifying that all patients and employees were vaccinated against influenza each of the previous years in accordance with the current recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to indications such as age, timing, dosing, and administration. Immunization of all consenting patients and employees would be subject to the availability of an adequate supply of the necessary vaccine, and subject to exemptions for medical contraindications and religious beliefs.

2007 NH SB 512
Enacted

Concerns public health powers and duties. Provides that during a state of emergency, the commissioner of health and human services has, among other powers and duties, and subject to the direction and control of the governor, the power to order immunization of individuals as necessary to prevent the spread of contagious disease, except that an individual may refuse treatment or immunization, and this power is subject to due process of law.

NY AB 876/
NY SB 3911
Enacted

Requires a general hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit to offer every parent, person in parental relation, and person reasonably anticipated to be a caregiver in the household of a newborn being treated in the neonatal intensive care unit an influenza vaccination.

NY AB 8133/
NY SB 3265
Pending

These bills relate to the immunization of long term care facility residents and health care personnel against influenza and pneumonia. Both bills would require long-term care facilities to ensure that personnel, including all employees, members of the medical staff, contract staff, students and volunteers, who could potentially expose residents to influenza or who have direct contact with residents, receive a documented influenza immunization at no cost, unless medically contraindicated, or against an individual's religious beliefs or there is an inadequate vaccine supply for the year. Would require aggregate data collection for personnel and resident influenza immunization status. Allows residents to refuse immunization after being fully informed of the risks. Would require that any adverse reactions be documented.

OR HB 2009
Enacted

Creates a state health authority and gives it the authority, among other provisions, to require a person to obtain treatment and use appropriate prophylactic measures to prevent the introduction or spread of a communicable disease or reportable disease, unless:

    (A) The person has a medical diagnosis for which a vaccination is contraindicated; or 

    (B) The person has a religious or conscientious objection to the required treatments or prophylactic measures.

State

Bill Summary

AK SB 86
Carryover to 2010

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 40 hours worked, after 90 days of employment. Provides exemptions for those under collective bargaining agreements.

CA AB 1000
Did not pass

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, after 90 days of employment. Provides exemptions for those under collective bargaining agreements.

CO HB 1210 (2009)
Did not pass

Requires employer with more than 15 employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked, up to 72 hours in a 12-month period. Employers with six to 15 employees must provide at least one hour for every 60 hours worked, up to 40 hours in a 12-month period.

HI HB 1687
Did not pass

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked, after 90 days of employment. Employees can accrue up to 40 hours if business has fewer than 10 employees and up to 72 hours if business has 10 or more employees.

IL HB 3665
Pending

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked. Employees can accrue up to seven days of sick leave.

ME SB 630
Did not pass

Requires employer with more than 24 employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 40 hours worked, up to 52 in a 12-month period. Employers with fewer than 25 employees must provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 80 hours worked, up to 26 hours. Accrual starts upon employment and can be used after 90 days of employment.

2009 MD HB 1296
Did not pass

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked. Employees can accrue up to 40 hours if business has fewer than 15 employees and up to 72 hours if business has 15 or more employees.

MA HB 1815/
MA SB 688
Pending

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked. Employees can accrue up to seven days of sick leave.

MN HB 612/
MN SB 461
Did not pass

Requires employer with 50 or more employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 40 hours worked, up to 52 hours in a 12-month period. Employers with 15 to 49 employees must provide at least one hour for every 80 hours worked, up to 26 hours in a 12-month period. Accrual starts upon employment and can be used after 90 days of employment.

2009 MO HB 782
Did not pass

Requires employer with 10 or more employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 37 hours worked, up to 40 hours in a 12-month period. Employers with fewer than 10 employees must provide at least one hour for every 80 hours worked, up to 26 hours in a 12-month period. Accrual starts upon employment and can be used after 90 days of employment.

2009 MT HB 579
Did not pass

Requires employer with 10 or more employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked, up to 72 hours in a 12-month period.

NH HB 662
Pending

Requires employer to provide at least 40 hours of paid sick leave in a 12-month period. Accrual starts upon employment and can be used after six months of employment.

NY AB 3647/
NY SB 2666
Pending

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 20 hours worked. Employees can accrue up to 40 hours if business has fewer than 10 employees and up to 80 hours if business has 10 or more employees. Provides exemptions for those under collective bargaining agreements.

2009 NC HB 177/
2009 NC SB 534
Did not pass

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over from year to year, for every 30 hours worked. Employees can accrue up to 32 hours if business has 10 or fewer employees and up to 56 hours if business has more than 10 employees. If an employee is rehired after a separation from employment of fewer than 90 days, he or she retains accrued sick leave.

PA HB 1830
Pending

Requires employer with 10 or more employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked, up to 52 hours in a 12-month period. Employers with fewer than 10 employees must provide at least one hour for every 80 hours worked, up to 26 hours in a 12-month period. No more than 40 hours can carry over from year to year. Accrual starts upon employment and can be used after 90 days of employment.

VT HB 382
Did not pass

Requires employer to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over year to year, for every 30 hours worked, up to 56 hours in a 12-month period. If an employee is re-hired within one year of a separation from employment, he or she retains accrued sick leave.

DC Act 17-0324
Enacted (2008)

Requires employer with 100 or more employees to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave, carried over year to year, for every 37 hours worked, up to seven days in a 12-month period; an employer with 25 to 99 employees to provide one hour of leave for every 43 hours worked, up to five days in a 12-month period; and an employer with fewer than 25 employees to provide one hour of leave for every 87 hours worked, up to three days in a 12-month period. Accrual starts upon employment and can be used after 90 days of employment. If an employee is re-hired within one year of a separation from employment, he or she retains accrued sick leave.