No. CS/HB 493
Filed under Healthcare.
Leave for Living Organ Donation; Defines "living organ donor"; requires state agencies to grant administrative leave, not to exceed specified number of days, to allow employee to serve as living organ donor; specifies that such leave is in addition to other leave authorized by law; defines "employer" and "living organ donor"; requires certain employers to grant unpaid leave of absence to allow employee to serve as living organ donor; specifies length of such leave of absence; authorizes employers to grant paid or unpaid leave for period longer than required period of time; provides effective date.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDState agencies must give any employee up to 30 working days of paid leave to donate an organ while alive, on top of whatever medical, personal, or other leave the employee already has.
Private employers and local governments with 50 or more employees must grant unpaid leave to a worker who requests it in writing and provides a doctor's documentation confirming the donation date.
That unpaid leave has no fixed day limit; it lasts until the employee's doctor clears them to return to work, and it doesn't replace or reduce any paid leave the employer already offers.
Employers can choose to be more generous than the law requires, offering paid leave or a longer leave period than the minimum this bill sets.
AIEvery state agency must grant an employee up to 30 working days of paid administrative leave to serve as a living organ donor, on top of any other leave the employee already has.
AIAny private employer or local government with 50 or more employees must grant an employee unpaid leave to serve as a living organ donor, once the employee submits a written request with physician documentation of the donation date.
AIUnlike the 30-day cap that applies to state agencies, the unpaid leave for private and local-government employees has no stated day limit; it continues until the employee's attending physician provides medical clearance to resume work.
AIThe unpaid-leave requirement only applies to a private employer or political subdivision that employs 50 or more employees, leaving smaller employers free to decide on their own whether to grant leave.
AIThe private-sector unpaid leave is required to be in addition to any medical, personal, or other paid leave the employee already receives, so donating an organ cannot be used to reduce an employee's existing leave balance.
AIAn employer covered by the mandate can choose to grant paid leave, or extend the leave beyond the length required, going further than the statute's floor without being required to.