SB199 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

2025 Regular Session

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Vivian Davis Figures Senator
Democrat
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Title: State employees; paid parental leave authorized, parameters for eligibility established
Description: This bill would enact the Alabama K-12 Public School and State Employee Paid Parental Leave Act of 2025.
Existing law does not provide for paid parental leave for state employees or employees of local education agencies. Subject to limitations and requirements, this bill would provide eligible state employees and eligible local education agency employees paid parental leave in connection with the birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage of a child or the adoption of a child who is three years of age or younger. A female eligible employee would be entitled to eight weeks of parental leave in connection with the birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage of her child.
A male eligible employee would be entitled to two weeks of parental leave in connection with the birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage of his child. Subject to limitations, an eligible employee of either sex would be entitled to eight weeks of parental leave in connection with the adoption of a child three years of age or younger.
This bill would require the State of Alabama Personnel Department and State Board of Education to adopt rules for the implementation and administration of parental leave. This bill would also require the State Personnel Department and State Department of Education to SB199 INTRODUCED annually report certain data relating to parental leave to the Governor and Legislature.
Subjects: Labor & Employment