102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3663

 

Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. Lindsey LaPointe

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 191/10

    Amends the Employee Sick Leave Act. Provides that an employee may use sick leave for a behavioral health appointment of the employee's child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use personal sick leave benefits for the employee's own illness or injury.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Employee Sick Leave Act is amended by
5changing Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 191/10)
7    Sec. 10. Use of leave; limitations.
8    (a) An employee may use personal sick leave benefits
9provided by the employer for absences due to an illness,
10injury, or behavioral health or medical appointment of the
11employee's child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner,
12sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild,
13grandparent, or stepparent, on the same terms upon which the
14employee is able to use personal sick leave benefits for the
15employee's own illness or injury. An employer may request
16written verification of the employee's absence from a health
17care professional if such verification is required under the
18employer's employment benefit plan or paid time off policy.
19    (b) An employer may limit the use of personal sick leave
20benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an
21illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee's
22child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent,
23mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or

 

 

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1stepparent to an amount not less than the personal sick leave
2that would be earned or accrued during 6 months at the
3employee's then current rate of entitlement. For employers who
4base personal sick leave benefits on an employee's years of
5service instead of annual or monthly accrual, such employer
6may limit the amount of sick leave to be used under this Act to
7half of the employee's maximum annual grant.
8    (c) An employer who provides personal sick leave benefits
9or a paid time off policy that would otherwise provide
10benefits as required under subsections (a) and (b) shall not
11be required to modify such benefits.
12(Source: P.A. 99-841, eff. 1-1-17; 99-921, eff. 1-13-17.)