| Measure Title: |
RELATING TO EMPLOYEE BENEFITS.
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| Report Title: |
Temporary Disability Insurance; Eligibility Criteria Exemption; Family Leave; Pregnancy; Childbirth; Preterm Birth; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Kangaroo Care; Breast Milk Expression
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| Description: |
Expands the State's temporary disability insurance (TDI) coverage to, and exempt from TDI benefit eligibility requirements that are employment-related, employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the employee's childbirth or provision of kangaroo care to, or expression of breast milk for, the employee's child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit. Extend under certain conditions, the temporary disability benefit payment period and family leave period for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to a preterm birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit or birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit for more than eight weeks. Defines "kangaroo care" and "preterm birth". Requires the Department of Health to amend its rules to include neonatal care as related condition where the phrase "pregnancy, childbirth, or other related condition" is used.
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| Companion: |
HB1409
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| Package: |
None
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| Current Referral: |
LBT/HHS, WAM
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| Introducer(s): |
RHOADS
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| Act: |
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| Sort by Date | | Status Text |
| 12/11/2023 | D | Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| 1/27/2023 | S | Referred to LBT/HHS, WAM. |
| 1/23/2023 | S | Passed First Reading. |
| 1/20/2023 | S | Introduced. |
S = Senate |
H = House |
D = Data Systems |
$ = Appropriation measure |
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment
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SB1007