HB309 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ginny Shaver Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

State employees, eight weeks paid parental leave provided for, State Personnel Department required to adopt rules

Description

Under existing law, certain employees are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid family leave.

This bill would provide certain state employees with eight weeks of paid parental leave following the birth of a child or the placement of a child who is under one year old with a state employee for adoption, and would provide spouses who work within the same state agencies with eight combined weeks of paid leave, with exceptions.

This bill would provide that parental leave be paid at 100 percent of the employee's base pay and would require the state to continue to provide the employee with any health care benefits that he or she had before the commencement of leave.

This bill would allow for the intermittent use of parental leave, provided that the leave is used within 365 days of the event qualifying an employee for parental leave.

This bill would require the State of Alabama Personnel Department to adopt rules to implement and administer parental leave, including, but not limited to, rules relating to notice of the right to parental leave and to the procedure to take parental leave.

This bill would also require the department to HB309 INTRODUCED annually report certain data relating to parental leave to the Legislature and the public.

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Subjects

Government Administration