Bill Text: HI SB614 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Family Leave; Military Deployment
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB614 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB614-Amended.html
Report Title:
Family Leave; Military Deployment
Description:
Grants additional family leave to address family care, legal, and financial issues directly related to or resulting from the impending military deployment or active military deployment of the employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, or parent. (SB614 HD2)
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 398-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Military deployment" means the deployment of, by order of a branch of the United States military, a person serving in the military to a region where hostile and hazardous combat or peacekeeping activities are being conducted."
SECTION 2. 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 of a child of the employee;
(2) Upon the adoption of a child;
(3) To care for a child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, or parent with a serious health condition; or
(4) To address family care, legal, and financial issues directly related to or resulting from the impending military deployment or active military deployment of the employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, or parent. An employee shall provide the employer with a copy of the military orders verifying the military deployment of the employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, or parent, and any other certifications or supporting documentation required under this chapter."
SECTION 3. The director of labor and industrial relations shall adopt rules in consultation with the department of defense in accordance with chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to implement section 398‑3(a)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.
