Bill Text: CT SB00262 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 262 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Connecticut Family And Medical Leave Act And Active Duty Military Service.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-07 - Signed by the Governor [SB00262 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-SB00262-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 262*
*February Session, 2016*		LCO No. 1949
		01949_______VA_
Referred to Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Introduced by:
(VA)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONNECTICUT FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT AND ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY SERVICE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 31-51ll of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(a) (1) Subject to section 31-51mm, an eligible employee shall be entitled to a total of sixteen workweeks of leave during any twenty-four-month period, such twenty-four-month period to be determined utilizing any one of the following methods: (A) Consecutive calendar years; (B) any fixed twenty-four-month period, such as two consecutive fiscal years or a twenty-four-month period measured forward from an employee's first date of employment; (C) a twenty-four-month period measured forward from an employee's first day of leave taken under sections 31-51kk to 31-51qq, inclusive; or (D) a rolling twenty-four-month period measured backward from an employee's first day of leave taken under sections 31-51kk to 31-51qq, inclusive.

(2) Leave under this subsection may be taken for one or more of the following reasons:

(A) Upon the birth of a son or daughter of the employee;

(B) Upon the placement of a son or daughter with the employee for adoption or foster care;

(C) In order to care for the spouse, or a son, daughter or parent of the employee, if such spouse, son, daughter or parent has a serious health condition;

(D) Because of a serious health condition of the employee; [or]

(E) In order to serve as an organ or bone marrow donor; or

(F) Because of any qualifying exigency, as determined in regulations adopted by the United States Secretary of Labor, arising out of the fact that the spouse, son or daughter, parent or next of kin of the employee is on active duty, or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty, in the armed forces, as defined in subsection (a) of section 27-103.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	31-51ll(a)

Statement of Purpose:

To provide under the Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act a leave right related to military service provided under with the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]