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BILL · 2017–18 SESSION

SB 5149: Paid family leave

Addressing paid family leave.

Summary

  • Provides benefits for individuals on paid family leave, including a family member's serious health condition, an individual's own serious health condition, a child's birth or placement of a child, or a military exigency.
  • Provides a phased-in schedule of paid family leave with up to eight weeks beginning on January 1, 2020, and reaching up to 12 weeks starting January 1, 2023.
  • Pays benefits of up to 50 percent of the individual's salary, capped at 50 percent of the state average weekly wage (AWW), starting January 1, 2020. The benefits increase each year until until January 1, 2023 when it reach 67 percent of the individual's salary, capped at 67 percent of the state's AWW. The state's AWW for 2015 was $1,082 per week.
  • Requires the Commissioner of the Employment Security Department to set the premium level each year based on sound actuarial principles.
  • Requires the premiums be paid by the employees.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 5149), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 13, 2017
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Joe Fain (R-47)
Introduced
January 13, 2017 in the Senate
Last action
January 8, 2018
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to paid family leave;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Joe Fain (R-47)

9 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 7 Republicans)

Steve Hobbs D-44John Braun R-20Guy Palumbo D-1Senator R-6Judy Warnick R-13Maureen Walsh R-16Mark Miloscia R-30Hans Zeiger R-25Senator R-18

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. Due to Senate committee reorganization, referred to Labor & Commerce.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  6. First reading, referred to Commerce, Labor & Sports.

SB 5149 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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