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SB 1412 Adoption; leave benefit.
Introduced by: David R. Suetterlein | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Parental leave benefits. Creates a new program of parental leave benefits for full-time state employees with one or more years of continuous employment with the Commonwealth who (i) adopt an infant under one year of age or (ii) are the natural father of an infant under one year of age. The amount of leave would be equivalent to the amount of paid leave awarded to an employee pursuant to short-term disability for maternity leave. The bill specifies that the parental leave coverage shall apply only to eligible state employees who take custody of an infant in the course of an adoption on or after July 1, 2018, or, for a natural father, for an infant born on or after July 1, 2018. The Department of Human Resource Management is directed to develop guidelines and policies for implementing the parental leave benefits. The bill also directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to analyze parental leave benefits for state employees in other states and the costs of providing such benefits to the employees of the Commonwealth. The bill has a reenactment clause that applies to all provisions of the bill except the JLARC study, which is effective July 1, 2017.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102878D pdf | impact statement
- 02/20/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17105676D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/17 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1412ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/20/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102878D
- 01/11/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/23/17 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/17 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/01/17 Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/17 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/03/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/17 House: Read first time
- 02/08/17 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/10/17 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
- 02/14/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/17 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/16/17 House: Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/20/17 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17105676D-H1
- 02/21/17 House: Read second time
- 02/22/17 House: Passed by temporarily
- 02/22/17 House: Read third time
- 02/22/17 House: Committee substitute agreed to 17105676D-H1
- 02/22/17 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1412H1
- 02/22/17 House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/17 Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 02/23/17 House: House insisted on substitute
- 02/23/17 House: House requested conference committee
- 02/23/17 Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/17 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/23/17 Senate: Senators: Suetterlein, Sturtevant, Mason
- 02/23/17 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/23/17 House: Delegates: Jones, Landes, Torian
- 02/24/17 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/17 House: Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/17 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/17 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/17 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1412ER)
- 03/07/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/13/17 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- 03/13/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/20/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 634 (effective - see bill)
- 03/20/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634)