Bill Text: IA SF375 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 225.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Subcommittee, Fry, Holt, and Steckman. H.J. 691. [SF375 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF375-Amended.html

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Senate File 375 - Reprinted




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE
                                     GOVERNMENT

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SF 225)
       (As Amended and Passed by the Senate March 19, 2015)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees
  2    and making penalties applicable.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    SF 375 (4) 86
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  91A.5B  Treatment of adoptive parent
  1  2 employees.
  1  3    1.  For purposes of this section, "adoption" means the
  1  4 permanent placement in this state of a child by the department
  1  5 of human services, by a licensed agency under chapter 238, by
  1  6 an agency that meets the provisions of the interstate compact
  1  7 in section 232.158, or by a person making an independent
  1  8 placement according to the provisions of chapter 600.
  1  9    2.  An employer shall treat an employee who chooses to
  1 10 adopt in the same manner as an employee who is the biological
  1 11 parent of a newborn child for purposes of employment policies,
  1 12 benefits, and protections for the first year of the adoption.
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