HB 1470 Summary

• Allows state employees up to 12 workweeks of unpaid family leave in any 12-month period for reasons including childbirth, adoption, foster care placement, serious health conditions of family members, and bereavement of a child.

• Permits intermittent family leave for adoption/foster care and child bereavement if employer approves, and for care of family members with serious health conditions if medically necessary.

• Limits combined family leave for married couples employed by the same state employer to 12 workweeks total in any 12-month period.

• Allows employees to use up to 480 hours of employer-provided illness or medical leave per 12-month period for authorized family leave purposes, with bereavement leave capped at 160 hours taken within six months of a child's death.

• Directs legislative management to study during 2019-20 interim the feasibility of combining state employees' annual leave and sick leave into a single paid time off system, with findings and recommendations due to the 67th legislative assembly.