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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4742 | ||||||
| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4742 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following: | ||||||
| 4 | "Section 5. The Employee Blood and Organ Donation Leave | ||||||
| 5 | Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (820 ILCS 149/10) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 10. Paid leave for blood donation; administration. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) On request, a participating employee subject to this | ||||||
| 9 | Act may be entitled to leave with pay to donate blood or an | ||||||
| 10 | organ. | ||||||
| 11 | (b) A participating An employee may use up to one hour, or | ||||||
| 12 | more if authorized by the employer or a collective bargaining | ||||||
| 13 | agreement, to donate blood every 56 days in accordance with | ||||||
| 14 | appropriate medical standards established by the American Red | ||||||
| 15 | Cross, America's Blood Centers, the American Association of | ||||||
| 16 | Blood Banks, or other nationally recognized standards. | ||||||
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| 1 | (b-5) A participating An employee or part-time employee of | ||||||
| 2 | an employer may use up to 10 days of leave in any 12-month | ||||||
| 3 | period to serve as an organ donor. For a part-time employee | ||||||
| 4 | using leave under this subsection, the employer shall | ||||||
| 5 | calculate the daily average pay the part-time employee | ||||||
| 6 | received during his or her previous 2 months of employment and | ||||||
| 7 | compensate the part-time employee in the amount of the daily | ||||||
| 8 | average pay for the leave days used. | ||||||
| 9 | (c) A participating employee or part-time employee may use | ||||||
| 10 | the leave authorized in subsection (b) or (b-5) of this | ||||||
| 11 | Section only after obtaining approval from the employer. | ||||||
| 12 | (d) The Department must adopt rules governing leave taken | ||||||
| 13 | to donate blood or an organ, including rules that (i) | ||||||
| 14 | establish conditions and procedures for requesting and | ||||||
| 15 | approving leave and (ii) require medical documentation of the | ||||||
| 16 | proposed blood or organ donation before leave is approved by | ||||||
| 17 | the employer. | ||||||
| 18 | (Source: P.A. 103-450, eff. 1-1-24.)". | ||||||