Bill Text: IL HB5165 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

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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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5165 Introduced , by Rep. LaToya Greenwood SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 191/5
820 ILCS 191/10
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.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Employee Sick Leave Act is amended by
changing Sections 5 and 10 as follows:
(820 ILCS 191/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Department" means the Department of Labor.
"Personal sick leave benefits" means any paid or unpaid
time available to an employee as provided through an employment
benefit plan or paid time off policy to be used as a result of
absence from work due to personal illness, injury, or medical
appointment or for the personal care of a parent,
mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparent, or stepparent. An
employment benefit plan or paid time off policy does not
include long term disability, short term disability, an
insurance policy, or other comparable benefit plan or policy.
(Source: P.A. 99-841, eff. 1-1-17; 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)
(820 ILCS 191/10)
Sec. 10. Use of leave; limitations.
(a) An employee may use personal sick leave benefits
provided by the employer for absences due to an illness,

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injury, or medical appointment of the employee's child,
stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent,
mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or
stepparent, or for the personal care of a parent,
mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparent, or stepparent on
the same terms upon which the employee is able to use personal
sick leave benefits for the employee's own illness or injury.
An employer may request written verification of the employee's
absence from a health care professional if such verification is
required under the employer's employment benefit plan or paid
time off policy.
(b) An employer may limit the use of personal sick leave
benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an
illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee's
child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent,
mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or
stepparent to an amount not less than the personal sick leave
that would be earned or accrued during 6 months at the
employee's then current rate of entitlement. For employers who
base personal sick leave benefits on an employee's years of
service instead of annual or monthly accrual, such employer may
limit the amount of sick leave to be used under this Act to
half of the employee's maximum annual grant.
(c) An employer who provides personal sick leave benefits
or a paid time off policy that would otherwise provide benefits
as required under subsections (a) and (b) shall not be required

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to modify such benefits.
(Source: P.A. 99-841, eff. 1-1-17; 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)