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Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 13, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- 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
This bill requires an employer under Code chapter 91A to treat an employee who adopts a child in the same manner as an employee who is the biological parent of a newborn child for purposes of employment policies, benefits, and protections for the first year of the adoption.158.2 defines “employer” as a person, as defined in Code chapter 4, who in this state employs for wages a natural person. The definition specifies that an employer does not include a client, patient, customer, or other person who obtains professional services from a licensed person who provides the services on a fee service basis or as an independent contractor.
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2 defines “employee” as a natural person who is employed in this state for wages by an employer. commission salesperson who takes orders or performs services on behalf of a principal and who is paid on the basis of commissions but does not include persons who purchase for their own account for resale.2 also excludes certain persons engaged in agriculture from the definition of “employee”. Code chapter 91A is administered and enforced by the labor commissioner. A violation of Code chapter 91A or the administrative rules promulgated under it is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500 per pay period for each violation.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 13, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2579 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 30 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2165 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 234 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- SF 476 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2165 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 82 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2417 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable88th General Assembly · Passed House · nearly identicalPassed a chamber
Similar bills this General Assembly
- SF 3 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 186Nearly identical
- HF 724 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable89th General Assembly · Passed HouseVery similar
- HF 248 Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable91st General Assembly · Signed by GovernorVery similar
Matched by wording or an identical title.