SF 134: Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and providing civil penalties

What it does

This bill requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth. The 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. 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.

Senate subcommittee · named January 30, 2025

• Sen. Mike Klimesh (R) · mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

For: Family Planning Council of Iowa; Iowa Association for Justice; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; League of Women Voters of Iowa; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa

In plain words

1. January 23, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. January 30, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Klimesh, Costello and Petersen