Bill Text: OH HB179 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: To require certain employers to allow a parent to exercise court-ordered parenting time without terminating the parent's employment, reducing the parent's pay, or taking other similar action against the parent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-28 - To Commerce, Labor and Technology [HB179 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2013-HB179-Introduced.html

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As Introduced

130th General Assembly Regular Session 2013-2014

H. B. No. 179

Representative Bishoff 

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A BILL

To enact section 3109.054 of the Revised Code to

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require certain employers to allow a parent to

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exercise court-ordered parenting time without

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terminating the parent's employment, reducing the

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parent's pay, or taking other similar action

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against the parent.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 3109.054 of the Revised Code be	7
enacted to read as follows:	8

Sec. 3109.054. (A) As used in this section:

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(1) "Public agency" means an office, agency, department,	10
bureau, or other governmental entity of the state or of a	11
political subdivision of the state.	12

(2) "Employer" means any of the following:

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(a) Any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or	14
activity affecting commerce who employs fifty or more employees	15
for each working day during each of twenty or more calendar work	16
weeks in the current or preceding calendar year;	17

(b) Any person who acts, directly or indirectly, in the	18
interest of an employer to any of the employees of such employer;	19

(c) Any successor in interest of an employer;

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(d) Any public agency.

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(B) A parent granted parenting time pursuant to an order	22
issued under Title XXI or XXXI of the Revised Code or by a court	23
of competent jurisdiction of any other state may provide the	24
parent's employer with a copy of the schedule of parenting time	25
created pursuant to that order if parenting time coincides with	26
the parent's regularly scheduled hours of employment. Upon receipt	27
of the schedule, the employer shall allow the parent to exercise	28
parenting time according to the schedule and shall not terminate	29
the parent's employment, reduce the parent's pay, or take any	30
other similar adverse action against the parent for exercising the	31
parenting time.	32