Bill Title: Creates the Employee Sick Leave Act. Provides that employees may use personal sick leave benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee's child, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent, for reasonable periods of time as the employee's attendance may be necessary, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use sick leave benefits for the employee's own illness or injury. Provides that the Department of Labor shall issue rules to implement the Act. Effective January 1, 2017.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 46)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-19 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0841 [HB6162 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Third Reading in Senate	2016-05-31	38	19	2	0	59	Passed	Link	View
House	Third Reading in House	2016-05-24	78	35	1	0	114	Passed	Link	View