House File 676 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 676 BY COOLING , WILBURN , JAMES , LEVIN , B. MEYER , KONFRST , MATSON , KRESSIG , BAGNIEWSKI , MADISON , CROKEN , R. JOHNSON , SRINIVAS , AMOS JR. , EHLERT , OLSON , ZABNER , SCHOLTEN , WESSEL-KROESCHELL , and NIELSEN A BILL FOR An Act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations 1 to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making 2 penalties applicable. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2161YH (3) 91 je/js
H.F. 676 Section 1. Section 216.6, subsection 2, Code 2025, is 1 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 2 NEW PARAGRAPH . f. (1) An employer shall provide reasonable 3 accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions 4 related to the employees pregnancy or childbirth if the 5 employee so requests with the advice of the employees health 6 care provider. 7 (2) For purposes of this paragraph f , reasonable 8 accommodations means actions which would permit an employee 9 with a medical condition relating to the employees pregnancy 10 or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities 11 involved in the employees specific occupation and include but 12 are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, 13 acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring, 14 and a modified work schedule. Reasonable accommodations does 15 not mean any action that would impose an undue hardship on the 16 business of the employer from whom the action is requested. 17 EXPLANATION 18 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 19 the explanations substance by the members of the general assembly. 20 This bill requires an employer to provide reasonable 21 accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions 22 related to the employees pregnancy or childbirth if the 23 employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice 24 of the employees health care provider. Penalty provisions 25 for discriminatory employment practices are made applicable 26 to a failure to provide such reasonable accommodations to an 27 employee. 28 The bill defines reasonable accommodations as actions 29 which would permit an employee with a medical condition 30 relating to the employees pregnancy or childbirth to 31 perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in 32 the employees specific occupation and include but are not 33 limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition 34 or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a 35 -1- LSB 2161YH (3) 91 je/js 1/ 2
H.F. 676 modified work schedule. The bill provides that reasonable 1 accommodations does not mean any action that would impose an 2 undue hardship on the business of the employer from whom the 3 action is requested. 4 -2- LSB 2161YH (3) 91 je/js 2/ 2