This bill modifies policies related to paid leave and maternity. This bill: - increases the amount of postpartum recovery leave available to a state employee from three to nine weeks; - requires certain state employers to:provide nine weeks of paid leave to a state employee who adopts a child younger than six years old; andprovide three weeks of paid leave to a state employee who fosters a child younger than six year old; - provides that paid leave for an adoption or foster placement described above runs consecutive to the three weeks of paid leave that is currently available to a state employee who adopts or fosters a child younger than 18 years old; - requires the Department of Human Resource Management to make rules to administer the paid leave types described above; - establishes the LEA Optional Paid Leave Reimbursement Program (program) and requires the State Board of Education (board) to make rules to administer the program; - specifies that the board shall reimburse an LEA under the program if:the LEA develops paid leave policies that provide an LEA employee with paid leave hours for postpartum recovery leave, adoption leave, or foster leave up to the amounts described above; andthe LEA incurs a cost in providing the paid leave types described above to the LEA employee; - requires the board to collect data on the program's use by LEAs and LEA employees; - 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