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Committee considers expanding shared leave to victims of hate crimes and immigration enforcement cases
Summary
Substitute House Bill 2411 would allow state shared leave to be used by employees who are victims of hate crimes or whose absences result from immigration‑enforcement actions; witnesses cited a recent case where an employee legally resident in the U.S. was detained at the Canadian border and colleagues could not donate leave under current law.
Substitute House Bill 2411, heard Feb. 16, would permit state employees to use donated shared leave when they are victims of a hate crime or when their absence is caused by an immigration‑enforcement action affecting them or a family member. Staff and the bill’s sponsor said the bill does not mandate leave or create new entitlements; it allows…
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