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HF 384Died when the session ended · February 14, 2019

Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable

Topics:Jobs & workersReproductive rights

Same legislation: HF 109, SF 117

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2019
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2019
  3. Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. 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 requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions related to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth if the employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice of the employee’s health care provider. Penalty provisions for discriminatory employment practices are made applicable to a failure to provide such reasonable accommodations to an employee. The bill defines “reasonable accommodations” as actions which would permit an employee with a medical condition relating to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in the employee’s specific occupation and include but are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a modified work schedule.

Read the full explanation

The bill provides that “reasonable accommodations” does not mean any action that would impose an undue hardship on the business of the employer from whom the action is requested.

Full bill text1

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§216.6

How the Code works2

Lobbying

19 for · 1 against · 20 undecided · Who →

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