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Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable
Sponsored by the House State Government Committee
Topics:Civil rightsJobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2022
- Done: House committeeFebruary 1, 2022
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If an employee has a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth, their employer must provide reasonable changes to help them do their job. These changes could include things like modified work schedules or special equipment, as long as they do not cause the business too much trouble. Employers who refuse to provide these accommodations could face penalties for discrimination.1
Read the official explanation
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. 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.
House subcommittee
Named January 25, 2022 (as HSB 603). On January 31, 2022 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 109 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HSB 608 HSB 60888th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- HF 384 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 117 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
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- HF 676 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
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- SSB 1029 SSB 102989th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 485Nearly identical
- SF 134 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…91st General Assembly · In committeeSimilar
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