NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE LEAVE

Session: 103rd General Assembly
Year: 2024
Bill #: HB5294
Category: Labor, Personnel and Pensions
Position: No position
Mandate?
Revenue Loss?
Authority Preemption?

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Summary as Introduced

Creates the Family Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Act. Provides that all employees shall be entitled to use a maximum of 10 days of unpaid neonatal intensive care leave while a child of the employee is a patient in a neonatal intensive care unit. Provides that an employer shall not require that an employee use leave the employee is entitled to under the Family Medical Leave Act instead of leave the employee is entitled to under the Act. Sets forth provisions concerning unlawful employer practices; Department of Labor responsibilities; and enforcement. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Fund.



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