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State
Bill |
Summary |
Last Action |
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California
SB 300 |
Increases the circumstances under which an employee is entitled to protected family leave. Prohibits employers from requiring medical information as a condition of granting leave. |
To Assembly Committee On Labor And Employment, 6/9/05 |
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Connecticut
HB 5404 |
Permits family medical leave for care of an adult child. Allows parents to use family medical leave to care for adult children incapable of caring for themselves. |
Failed Joint Favorable Deadline, 3/29/05 |
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SB 281 |
Extends family and medical leave coverage to state and municipal employees. Gives all state and local employees in Connecticut the benefits of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. |
Failed Joint Favorable Deadline, 3/29/05 |
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SB 1018 |
Allows state employees to use up to two weeks of accumulated sick leave while on family and medical leave due to the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a seriously ill child, spouse or parent. |
To Joint Committee On Appropriations, 4/12/05 |
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Hawaii
HB 325 |
Allows an employee to use Temporary Disability Insurance sick leave benefits for family leave purposes. |
To Governor, 5/5/05 |
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HB 761 |
Allows an employee to use family leave during any calendar year upon the military deployment of the employee's child, spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, or parent. |
To Senate Committee On Ways And Means, 3/24/05 |
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HB 1130
and
SB 533 |
Allows use of sick leave in excess of the statutory minimum for temporary disability benefits for purposes of family leave. |
To House Committee On Labor And Public Employment, 1/31/05 |
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Illinois
HB 659 |
Expands definition of family for purposes of family leave to include son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father-in- law, or mother-in-law who has a serious health condition. |
Rereferred To House Committee On Rules, 3/10/05 |
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HB 3470 |
Establishes a Family Leave Insurance Program to provide paid leave to an employee who is unavailable to work because the employee has to care for a newborn child or a newly-placed adopted or foster child. |
Rereferred To House Committee On Rules, 3/10/05 |
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SB 1627 |
Provides that any employer that employs between 15 and 50 employees shall provide up to 15 days of unpaid family military leave to an employee during the time federal or State deployment orders are in effect. |
To Governor, 6/24/05 |
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Maine
LR 1441 |
LD 1044- Allows the use of paid leave to care for ill family members. |
Introduced, 1/3/05 |
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LR 1686 |
LD 1413- Expands the remedies available to employees alleging violations of the state family leave requirements to equal those available under federal law. |
Public Law No. 228, 5/25/05 |
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Massachusetts
HB 3121 |
Establishes family temporary disability benefits and leaves of absence for employees providing care and assistance for family members. |
In Joint Committee On Labor And Workforce Development: Heard, 5/4/05 |
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HB 3771 |
HD 1039- Requires certain employees to provide unpaid family and medical leave. |
In Joint Committee On Labor And Workforce Development: Heard, 5/4/05 |
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HB 3827 |
HD 2194- Establishes a pilot program for paid family leave for birth and adoption. |
Assigned House Bill No. 3827, 1/5/05 |
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HB 3944 |
HD 3774- Establishes a paid family and medical leave program. |
Filed As House Docket 3774, 1/5/05 |
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Mississippi
HB 65 |
Contains provisions related to family under major medical leave. |
Died In Committee, 2/1/05 |
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HB 270 |
Contains provisions related to family under major medical leave. |
Died In Committee, 2/1/05 |
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HB 1208 |
Contains provisions related to family under major medical leave. |
Died In Committee, 2/1/05 |
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HB 1277 |
Contains provisions related to family under major medical leave. |
Died In Committee, 2/1/05 |
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New Jersey
SB 2518 |
Includes domestic partners as family members under "New Jersey Family Leave Act." |
To Senate Committee On Labor, 5/12/05 |
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New Mexico
SB 448 |
Allows employer to claim a tax credit in an amount equal to twenty-five percent for the salary or wage costs incurred in providing paid family medical leave to an employee. |
From Senate Committee On Corporations And Transportation: Do Pass, 2/26/05 |
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SB 449 |
Allows an employee the choice of using sick leave or other paid time off to care for 1) a child of the employee with a health condition that requires treatment or supervision; or 2) a spouse, parent, parent-in-law or grandparent of the employee who has a serious health condition or an emergency condition.
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To Senate Committee On Finance, 1/26/05 |
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New York
AB 1301
and
SB 1501 |
Allows seven days of unpaid leave for families for the purpose of bereavement in connection with the death of an immediate family or household member or to provide care to an immediate family or household member. |
From Assembly Committee On Rules, 6/22/05 |
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AB 2673 |
Allows employees to utilize accrued and available sick leave to provide care to immediate family, household members or domestic partners. |
To Senate Committee On Rules, 5/31/05 |
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AB 6150
and
SB 2836 |
Establishes the Family and Medical Leave Independent Savings Account. |
To Assembly Committee On Labor, 3/7/05 |
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Oklahoma
HB 1803 |
Authorizes tax credit for employers providing paid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. |
From Senate Committee On Finance: Do Pass As Amended, 4/7/05 |
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Oregon
HB 3054 |
Expands purposes for which employee taking family leave may use paid accrued sick leave. |
To House Committee On Business, Labor And Consumer Affairs, 3/17/05 |
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SB 148 |
Prohibits retaliation or discrimination against individual because individual inquired about family leave, submitted request for family leave or invoked any provision of family leave law. |
To House Committee On Business, Labor And Consumer Affairs, 3/16/05 |
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SB 565 |
Creates wage replacement program for employees taking family or medical leave. |
To Senate Committee On Commerce, 2/15/05 |
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SB 576 |
Adds licensed registered nurses to definition of health care provider for purposes of family leave. |
Chapter No. 171, 6/14/05 |
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SB 644 |
Redefines family leave to exclude leave taken by employee who is unable to work because of disabling compensable injury under Workers' Compensation Law. |
To House Committee On Business, Labor And Consumer Affairs, 5/9/05 |
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Pennsylvania
HB 685 |
Establishes a tax credit for small businesses offering 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave annually. |
To House Committee On Finance, 3/7/05 |
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HB 1764 |
Allows employees to use family leave for additional situations involving children and elderly relatives. |
To House Committee On Labor Relations, 6/21/05 |
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SB 314 |
Allows employees to use family leave for additional situations involving child, stepchild and foster child. |
To Senate Committee On Labor And Industry, 2/16/05 |
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Tennessee
HB 984
and
SB 1312 |
Expands situations in which employees can use family leave for pregnancy. Establishes a state leave program similar to the federal program. |
To House Committee On Consumer And Employee Affairs, 2/9/05 |
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Washington
HB 1173
and
SB 5069 |
Establishes family leave insurance program which would provide limited income support to an employee on family leave. |
Referred To House Committee On Appropriations, 3/2/05 |
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SB 5850 |
Clarifies the definition of sick leave for purposes of family leave. |
Chapter No. 499, 5/17/05 |
