HB477 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Debbie Wood

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Employees of local boards of education; twelve weeks of paid parental leave following birth of child, placement of child for adoption, miscarriage, or stillbirth provided for; State Board of Education authorized to adopt rules

Description

Existing law does not provide for paid parental leave for employees of local boards of education.

This bill would provide certain eligible employees of local boards of education with 12 workweeks of paid parental leave following the birth of a child, the placement of a child for adoption, miscarriage, or stillbirth, to be taken within 12 months of the birth, placement, miscarriage, or stillbirth.

This bill would require an employer to provide compensation and health care coverage to eligible employees who take paid parental leave in the same manner as if the employee remained at work.

This bill would require an employer to recover health care premiums if an employee on paid parental leave fails to return to work or leaves his or her employer within two years after he or she commenced parental leave.

This bill would also require the State Board of Education and each local board of education to adopt rules.

Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of HB477 INTRODUCED local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the section. If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue.

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Subjects

Education