Bill Text: IL HB5165 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Employee Sick Leave Act. Provides that personal care of a parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparent, or stepparent is a permissible use of personal sick leave benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5165 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB5165-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning employment.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Employee Sick Leave Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Sections 5 and 10 as follows:
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6 | (820 ILCS 191/5)
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7 | Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | "Department" means the Department of Labor. | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | "Personal sick leave benefits" means any paid or unpaid | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | time available to an employee as provided through an employment | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | benefit plan or paid time off policy to be used as a result of | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | absence from work due to personal illness, injury, or medical | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | appointment or for the personal care of a parent, | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparent, or stepparent . An | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | employment benefit plan or paid time off policy does not | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | include long term disability, short term disability, an | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | insurance policy, or other comparable benefit plan or policy.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 99-841, eff. 1-1-17; 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)
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19 | (820 ILCS 191/10)
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20 | Sec. 10. Use of leave; limitations. | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | (a) An employee may use personal sick leave benefits | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | provided by the employer for absences due to an illness, |
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1 | injury, or medical appointment of the employee's child, | ||||||
2 | stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, | ||||||
3 | mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or | ||||||
4 | stepparent, or for the personal care of a parent, | ||||||
5 | mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparent, or stepparent on | ||||||
6 | the same terms upon which the employee is able to use personal | ||||||
7 | sick leave benefits for the employee's own illness or injury. | ||||||
8 | An employer may request written verification of the employee's | ||||||
9 | absence from a health care professional if such verification is | ||||||
10 | required under the employer's employment benefit plan or paid | ||||||
11 | time off policy. | ||||||
12 | (b) An employer may limit the use of personal sick leave | ||||||
13 | benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an | ||||||
14 | illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee's | ||||||
15 | child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, | ||||||
16 | mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or | ||||||
17 | stepparent to an amount not less than the personal sick leave | ||||||
18 | that would be earned or accrued during 6 months at the | ||||||
19 | employee's then current rate of entitlement. For employers who | ||||||
20 | base personal sick leave benefits on an employee's years of | ||||||
21 | service instead of annual or monthly accrual, such employer may | ||||||
22 | limit the amount of sick leave to be used under this Act to | ||||||
23 | half of the employee's maximum annual grant. | ||||||
24 | (c) An employer who provides personal sick leave benefits | ||||||
25 | or a paid time off policy that would otherwise provide benefits | ||||||
26 | as required under subsections (a) and (b) shall not be required |
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1 | to modify such benefits.
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2 | (Source: P.A. 99-841, eff. 1-1-17; 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)
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