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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 478

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Relating to: allowing the enactment of family and medical leave ordinances. (FE)

Employment Family Ordinance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a city, county, town, or village may not enact and administer

an ordinance that requires an employer to provide family or medical leave to an

employee. This bill eliminates that prohibition.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bare (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Joers (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

14 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Billings (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Jacobson (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Madison (D) , Pfaff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D) , Wirch (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Subeck, Bare, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Cabrera, Considine, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Hong, Joers, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs and Vining; cosponsored by Senators L. Johnson, Hesselbein, Agard, Carpenter, Larson, Pfaff, Roys, Smith, Spreitzer, Taylor and Wirch

  2. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Integrated Employment

  3. Oct 26, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 30, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Madison added as a coauthor

  6. Nov 10, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Billings added as a coauthor

  7. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1