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House committee backs bill to double paid maternity leave for state employees to 12 weeks
Summary
The House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee voted 6-2 Feb. 4 to recommend HB 329, which would extend paid maternity leave for state employees from 6 to 12 weeks, create a $3 million pilot reimbursement pool for K–12 districts funded from the stabilization fund, and clarify pumping protections for nursing parents.
Representative Ariel DeFeay, sponsor of HB 329, told lawmakers Feb. 4 that the bill would extend paid leave for state employees from six weeks to 12 weeks and add explicit protections for nursing parents who pump breast milk in public. “So we are expanding it from 6 weeks to 12 weeks,” DeFeay said during her presentation to the House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee.
The bill would also expand leave categories to cover adoptive and foster placements for young children (defined in the bill as age 6 and younger) and create a one-time $3,000,000 reimbursement pool to help local education agencies and charter schools offer up to 12 weeks of paid leave for teachers and other school employees. The sponsor said the teacher reimbursement pilot would be…
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