Family leave after miscarriage or stillbirth. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill permits employees covered by the state's family and medical leave law to use family leave if the employee's natural child is miscarried or stillborn.

Under the current state family and medical leave law, an employer that employs at least 50 individuals on a permanent basis must permit an employee who has been employed by the employer for more than 52 consecutive weeks and who has worked for the employer for at least 1,000 hours during the preceding 52 weeks to take family leave to care for a child, spouse, domestic partner, or parent of the employee who has a serious health condition and to take up to six weeks of family leave following the birth or adoption of a child, if the leave begins within 16 weeks of the birth or adoption. This bill permits a covered employee to take up to six weeks of family leave if the employee's natural child is miscarried or stillborn, if the leave begins within 16 weeks of the miscarriage or stillbirth.

Who's behind it

David Bowen, a Democrat, is its author⁠.