Bill Text: IL HB3708 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Family and Medical Leave Act. Provides that employees are entitled to 12 weeks of leave during a calendar year. Provides that leave may be used for absence from work due to (1) personal illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee, (2) illness, injury, or medical appointment of a member of the employee's family, or (3) for the birth of a child or the adoption of a child under one year of age. Requires the employer to pay the cost of health insurance applicable to the employee during the period of leave. Requires that the employee be returned to his or her position or an equivalent position upon completion of the family medical leave period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3708 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3708-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3708 Introduced , by Rep. Terra Costa Howard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Family and Medical Leave Act. Provides that employees are entitled to 12 weeks of leave during a calendar year. Provides that leave may be used for absence from work due to (1) personal illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee, (2) illness, injury, or medical appointment of a member of the employee's family, or (3) for the birth of a child or the adoption of a child under one year of age. Requires the employer to pay the cost of health insurance applicable to the employee during the period of leave. Requires that the employee be returned to his or her position or an equivalent position upon completion of the family medical leave period.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Family
and Medical Leave Act.
Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Department" means the Department of Labor.
"Family and medical leave benefits" means any paid or
unpaid time available to an employee as provided through an
employment benefit plan or paid time off policy to be used as a
result of absence from work due to (1) personal illness,
injury, or medical appointment of the employee, (2) illness,
injury, or medical appointment of a member of the employee's
family, or (3) for the birth of a child or the adoption of a
child under one year of age.
Section 10. Use of leave; limitations.
(a) An employee may use family and medical leave benefits
provided by the employer for absences due to an illness,
injury, or medical appointment of the employee's child,
stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent,
mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or
stepparent, on the same terms upon which the employee is able

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to use medical and family leave benefits for the employee's own
illness or injury. An employee may use family and medical leave
benefits provided by an employer for the birth of a child or
the adoption of a child under one year of age.
(b) An employee is entitled to 12 weeks of family and
medical leave during each calendar year. An employee may take
family and medical leave intermittently.
(c) An employee may elect to use family medical leave or to
use other leave available to the employee. An employer may not
require an employee to use family and medical leave before
using, instead of using, or simultaneously using other leave
available to the employee.
Section 15. Insurance benefits; return to work.
(a) An employer shall pay the cost of any health insurance
program applicable to the employee during the employee's
absence for family and medical leave.
(b) Upon the return to work from family medical leave, the
employee shall be reinstated to his or her previous position of
employment or to an equivalent position of employment.
Section 20. Rules. The Department may adopt rules to
implement this Act.