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AZ HB2890

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Junelle Cavero

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

  • Requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees unless doing so would create undue hardship on the business.

  • Specifies permissible accommodations including equipment modification, additional break periods, assistance with manual labor, private breastfeeding areas, flexible work schedules, and scheduling adjustments for prenatal care visits.

  • Prohibits employers from requiring pregnant employees to use annual, vacation, or sick leave when a reasonable accommodation can be provided instead.

  • Mandates employers post conspicuous notice of the accommodation requirement, include information in employee handbooks, and provide written notice to newly hired employees at hire, current employees within 180 days of the law's effective date, and pregnant employees within 10 days of notifying their employer of pregnancy.

  • Establishes this legislation as the "Pregnant Workers Protection Act."

Legislative Description

Pregnant employees; reasonable accommodation.

Employment Practices

Last Action

House read second time

2/13/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules2/12/2025
Commerce2/12/2025

Full Bill Text

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