Sen. Julie A. Morrison
Filed: 3/14/2019
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 68
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 68 on page 7, by | ||||||
| 3 | replacing lines 8 through 26 with the following:
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| 4 | "(i) If a private employer grants all of its employees the | ||||||
| 5 | option of taking a paid leave of absence of at least 30 days | ||||||
| 6 | for the purpose of serving as an organ donor or bone marrow | ||||||
| 7 | donor, then the private employer may take a credit against the | ||||||
| 8 | payments due under this Section in an amount equal to the | ||||||
| 9 | amount withheld under this Section with respect to wages paid | ||||||
| 10 | while the employee is on organ donation leave, not to exceed | ||||||
| 11 | $20,833.33 for each employee who takes organ donation leave. To | ||||||
| 12 | be eligible for the credit, such a leave of absence must be | ||||||
| 13 | taken without loss of pay, vacation time,
compensatory time, | ||||||
| 14 | personal days, or sick time for at least the first 30 days of | ||||||
| 15 | the leave of absence. The private employer shall adopt rules | ||||||
| 16 | governing organ donation leave, including rules that (i) | ||||||
| 17 | establish conditions and procedures for requesting and | ||||||
| 18 | approving leave and (ii) require medical documentation of the | ||||||
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| 1 | proposed organ or bone marrow donation before leave is approved | ||||||
| 2 | by the private employer. A private employer must provide, in | ||||||
| 3 | the manner required by the Department, documentation from the | ||||||
| 4 | employee's medical provider, which the private employer | ||||||
| 5 | receives from the employee, that verifies the employee's organ | ||||||
| 6 | donation. The private employer must also provide, in the manner | ||||||
| 7 | required by the Department, documentation that shows that a | ||||||
| 8 | qualifying organ donor leave policy was in place and offered to | ||||||
| 9 | all qualifying employees at the time the leave was taken. For | ||||||
| 10 | the private employer to receive the tax credit, the employee | ||||||
| 11 | taking organ donor leave must allow for the applicable medical | ||||||
| 12 | records to be disclosed to the Department. If the private | ||||||
| 13 | employer cannot provide the required documentation to the | ||||||
| 14 | Department, then the private employer is ineligible for the | ||||||
| 15 | credit under this Section. A private employer must also | ||||||
| 16 | provide, in the form required by the Department, any additional | ||||||
| 17 | documentation or information required by the Department to | ||||||
| 18 | administer the credit under this Section. The credit under this | ||||||
| 19 | subsection (i) shall be taken within one year after the date | ||||||
| 20 | upon which the organ donation leave begins."; and | ||||||
| 21 | on page 8, immediately below line 8, by inserting the | ||||||
| 22 | following: | ||||||
| 23 | ""Department" means the Department of Revenue.".
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