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HB 819 Original 2022 Regular Session Cox
Abstract: Provides relative to extended sick leave related to pregnancy and infant care for certain
school employees.
Present law requires public school boards to permit teachers, school bus operators, and other school
board employees to take up to 90 days of extended sick leave in each six-year period of employment
for a medical necessity when the person has no remaining regular sick leave balance. Proposed law
retains present law.
Present law requires public school boards to grant leaves of absence to regularly employed women
teachers for a reasonable time before and after the birth of a child and to teachers after the legal
adoption of a child.
Present law additionally requires school boards to permit a teacher who has been granted maternity
leave pursuant to present law and who has no remaining extended sick leave balance to take up to
30 days of additional extended sick leave in each six-year period of employment for personal illness
relating to pregnancy, illness of an infant, or for required medical visits certified by a physician as
relating to infant or maternal health.
Proposed law requires that the extended maternal and infant health leave available to teachers who
have been granted maternity leave also be made available to any school bus operator and any other
school board employee who is not a teacher.
(Amends R.S. 17:500.2(A)(1) and (2)(c) and (d) and (E)(1) and 1206.2(A)(1) and (2)(c) and (d) and
(E)(1)(a); Adds R.S. 17:500.2(A)(2)(e) and 1206.2(A)(2)(e))