Bills › 89th General Assembly
HSB 603
Topics:State government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2022
- Done: House committeeFebruary 1, 2022
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2257
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 2257 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2257 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Employers must provide helpful changes to a workspace or job duties for employees with medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth. These changes, such as modified schedules or new equipment, must be requested with a doctor's advice. Companies do not have to provide accommodations that would cause them extreme difficulty or hardship.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. _____ 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. On January 31, 2022 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 384 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
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