This bill modifies policies related to paid leave and maternity.
This bill:
- increases the amount of postpartum recovery leave that a state employer must provide a state employee from three to six weeks;
- requires certain state employers to provide six weeks of paid leave to a state employee who adopts a child under six years old;
- provides that paid leave for an adoption described above runs consecutive to the three weeks of paid leave that is currently available to a state employee who adopts a child under 18 years old;
- clarifies that adoption leave may be used at any point during the adoption process and is not limited to the finalization of an adoption;
- clarifies that a state employee's appointment as legal guardian of a child qualifies the state employee for parental leave;
- removes foster placement as an event making a state employee eligible for paid parental leave and creates a separate foster leave category with a four-week paid-leave duration;
- allows two state employees who jointly adopt or foster a child to share a single paid leave period rather than each receiving a separate leave entitlement;
- clarifies that a state employee may not use foster leave after a child is no longer in foster care with the state employee;
- allows a state employee to use foster leave on an intermittent basis;
- prohibits the combined use of parental leave, foster leave, and adoption leave for the same child;
- requires the Department of Human Resource Management to make rules to administer the paid leave types described above;
- increases the amount of foster leave that an LEA must provide an LEA employee from three to four weeks;
- requires an LEA to provide three weeks of paid leave to an LEA employee who adopts a child under six years old;
- provides that paid leave for an adoption described above runs consecutive to the three weeks of paid leave that is currently available to an LEA employee who adopts a child under 18 years old;
- amends the Breastfeeding Protection Act to include a woman's use of a breast pump; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 53F-9-204, 53G-11-209, 63A-17-511
Substitute #2: 53G-11-209, 63A-17-511
Substitute #1: 53G-11-209, 63A-17-511
Enrolled: 53G-11-209, 63A-17-511
Substitute #3: 53G-11-209, 63A-17-511