Bill Text: HI HB169 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Family Leave; Military Deployment

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to PSM/JDL, WAM. [HB169 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB169-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

169

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to family leave.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 398-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  An employee shall be entitled to a total of four weeks of family leave during any calendar year [upon the birth of a child of the employee or the adoption of a child, or to care for the employee's child, spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, or parent with a serious health condition.]:

     (1)  Upon the birth or adoption of a child by the employee;

     (2)  To care for the employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, or parent, with a serious health condition; or

     (3)  For any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent is on covered active duty in the armed forces of the United States, as such conditions and terms are defined in Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations Part 825, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, as amended."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2013.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Family Leave; Military Deployment

 

Description:

Allows an employee with a family member in the United States armed forces who is on active duty or notified of a call to active duty, to use family leave for certain activities for which an employee may take military family leave under federal law.  Effective July 1, 2013.

 

 

 

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