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HB 21 Original 2023 Regular Session Stagni
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 additional days of 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 authorizes school boards to permit a school bus operator or other employee who has
no remaining extended sick leave balance to take up to 30 additional days of extended sick leave for
maternal and child health.
(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))