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Relating to unfair or discriminatory employment practices based upon issues relating to reproductive health, and including effective date provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 29, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 31, 2019
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to unfair or discriminatory employment practices based upon reproductive health decisions. The bill specifies that it is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any employer to do any of the following: 1. Take any adverse employment action against an employee based on the use of any drug, device, or medical service related to reproductive health by the employee or the employee’s spouse or dependent; 2. Require an employee to sign a waiver or other document which purports to deny an employee, or an employee’s spouse or dependents, the right to make the employee’s or the employee’s spouse or dependents own reproductive health care decisions, including whether to use any particular drug, device, or medical service; or 3.
Read the full explanation
Take any adverse employment action in retaliation against an employee for asserting rights or remedies under the bill. The bill requires an employer who provides an employee handbook to the employer’s employees to include in the handbook notice of the employee’s rights and remedies under the bill. The bill defines “adverse employment action” for the purposes of the bill; and provides that the bill does not apply to any bona fide religious institution with respect to any qualifications the institution may impose based on religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity when such qualifications are related to a bona fide religious purpose or to any employer who regularly employs less than four individuals. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
House subcommittee
Named January 22, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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