THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Karl Rhoads, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

TIME:

9:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 4, HD1

      (HSCR784)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care.  (HB4 HD1)

 

JDL, WAM

 

 

 

HB 213, HD1

      (HSCR739)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Permits an employee to take family leave in order to care for the employee's sibling with a serious health condition or upon the death of an employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, sibling, or parent.  Specifies notice and certification requirements.  (HB213 HD1)

 

JDL, WAM

 

The Committee previously held public hearings on Senate bills that are substantially similar to the following House bills. Please focus your testimony on the differences, if any, between the House and Senate measures listed.

 

 

HB 1402, HD2

      (HSCR1035)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EMPLOYEES.

Establishes a shared leave program within the Department of Human Resources Development to allow state employees to donate accumulated sick leave and vacation leave credits to a shared leave bank or to another state employee who has a serious personal illness or injury or who has a family member who has a serious personal illness or injury.  (HB1402 HD2)

 

JDL, WAM

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair