ON MARCH 24, 2025, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1253, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 revises the provisions in the bill relative to the six work weeks of paid leave to, instead, require each local board of education and public charter governing body to adopt a policy that requires the six work weeks of paid leave be used within 12 months of the birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or the employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child and be either:  Taken consecutively, except in extenuating circumstances, as determined and approved by the director of schools or the director of the public charter school, as applicable; or  Taken non-consecutively, but in increments of no less than one week.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 49-3-312(a), 49-3-312, 8-50-814(d), 8-50-814