Full Text of HB3663 102nd General Assembly
HB3663 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 HB3663 Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Employee Sick Leave Act. Provides that an employee may use sick leave for a behavioral health appointment of the employee's child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use personal sick leave benefits for the employee's own illness or injury.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning employment.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Employee Sick Leave Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 10 as follows: | 6 | | (820 ILCS 191/10)
| 7 | | Sec. 10. Use of leave; limitations. | 8 | | (a) An employee may use personal sick leave benefits | 9 | | provided by the employer for absences due to an illness, | 10 | | injury, or behavioral health or medical appointment of the | 11 | | employee's child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, | 12 | | sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, | 13 | | grandparent, or stepparent, on the same terms upon which the | 14 | | employee is able to use personal sick leave benefits for the | 15 | | employee's own illness or injury. An employer may request | 16 | | written verification of the employee's absence from a health | 17 | | care professional if such verification is required under the | 18 | | employer's employment benefit plan or paid time off policy. | 19 | | (b) An employer may limit the use of personal sick leave | 20 | | benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an | 21 | | illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee's | 22 | | child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, | 23 | | mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or |
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| 1 | | stepparent to an amount not less than the personal sick leave | 2 | | that would be earned or accrued during 6 months at the | 3 | | employee's then current rate of entitlement. For employers who | 4 | | base personal sick leave benefits on an employee's years of | 5 | | service instead of annual or monthly accrual, such employer | 6 | | may limit the amount of sick leave to be used under this Act to | 7 | | half of the employee's maximum annual grant. | 8 | | (c) An employer who provides personal sick leave benefits | 9 | | or a paid time off policy that would otherwise provide | 10 | | benefits as required under subsections (a) and (b) shall not | 11 | | be required to modify such benefits.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 99-841, eff. 1-1-17; 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)
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