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Committee substitutes and advances SB 86; debate centers on employee-threshold for antidiscrimination coverage
Summary
The committee approved a first substitute to SB 86 addressing workplace protections and harassment language, and then restored the 15-employee threshold (the federal baseline) after debate; sponsors said the substitute fixes last session—s drafting errors and expands state protections in targeted code sections.
The committee passed the first substitute of Senate Bill 86, a workplace-protection package that fixes a drafting error in last year's harassment law and includes clarifications to the statute that addresses workplace harassment and discrimination.
Sponsor Senator Pitcher explained the substitute combines a correction to a definition added last session with additional cleaning language.…
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