Bill Text: IA HF376 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Bill 376 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Committee report, recommending passage. [HF376 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF376-Introduced.html


House File 376 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  HEARTSILL, ANDERSON,
                                     HINSON,
                                     RUNNING=MARQUARDT,
                                     SHEETS, MILLER,
                                     HIGHFILL, OLDSON,
                                     NUNN, MEYER, KOESTER,
                                     HUNTER, and T. TAYLOR

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations
  2    to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making
  3    penalties applicable.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 216.6, subsection 2, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  f.  (1)  An employer shall provide reasonable
  1  4 accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions
  1  5 related to the employee's pregnancy or childbirth if the
  1  6 employee so requests with the advice of the employee's health
  1  7 care provider.
  1  8    (2)  For purposes of this lettered paragraph "f", "reasonable
  1  9 accommodations" means actions which would permit an employee
  1 10 with a medical condition relating to the employee's pregnancy
  1 11 or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities
  1 12 involved in the employee's specific occupation and include but
  1 13 are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite,
  1 14 acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring,
  1 15 and a modified work schedule.  "Reasonable accommodations" does
  1 16 not mean any action that would impose an undue hardship on the
  1 17 business of the employer from whom the action is requested.
  1 18                           EXPLANATION
  1 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 20 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 21    This bill requires an employer to provide reasonable
  1 22 accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions
  1 23 related to the employee's pregnancy or childbirth if the
  1 24 employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice
  1 25 of the employee's health care provider.  Penalty provisions
  1 26 for discriminatory employment practices are made applicable
  1 27 to a failure to provide such reasonable accommodations to an
  1 28 employee.
  1 29    The bill defines "reasonable accommodations" as actions
  1 30 which would permit an employee with a medical condition
  1 31 relating to the employee's pregnancy or childbirth to
  1 32 perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in
  1 33 the employee's specific occupation and include but are not
  1 34 limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition
  1 35 or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a
  2  1 modified work schedule.  The bill provides that "reasonable
  2  2 accommodations" does not mean any action that would impose an
  2  3 undue hardship on the business of the employer from whom the
  2  4 action is requested.
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