Family Leave Activity Across the Country, A-L*

2001 bill introduced to extend UI to care for new child

 • public employees may use sick leave to care for ill family members  

 • 2002 bill introduced to allow all workers to use sick leave for illness of child, spouse, or parent

 • universal disability leave with wage replacement

 • 2002 bill passed providing for 6 weeks of partially paid leave to care for new child or ill family member, beginning 2004, funded by workers

 • employers must allow use of sick leave to attend to family illness

 • 2000 bill introduced to require minimum of 6 days sick leave if 5+ employees

 • 1999 act required study of extending TDI to full family leave and raising benefit cap

 • public employees may use sick leave to attend to family illness

 • 2001 bill introduced to provide 40 hours leave for parents attending school activities

 • bills introduced in 2001 and 2002 to allow public employees to use sick leave to care for a new child or ill family member

 • maternity disability leave in all companies with 3+ employees

 • 2000 law enacted requiring study of costs and benefits of paid family leave

Extends full FMLA protections to workers in companies with 20+ employees, expands definition of family members, and allows 16 weeks family leave + 16 weeks disability leave every 2 years

2000 and 2001 bills introduced to extend UI to care for new child

public employees may use sick leave to attend to family illness

2001 bill introduced to extend UI to workers on family and medical leave

 • universal disability leave with wage replacement, including pregnancy/childbirth

 • 2001 and 2002 bills introduced to establish family leave insurance fund with combined employee/ employer contributions

2001 bill introduced to extend UI to workers on family and medical leave

 • 2001 and 2002 bills introduced allowing workers to use sick leave to attend to family illness

 • includes grandparents and in-laws in FMLA protections

 • 2001 bill introduced for tax credits to employers providing paid family and medical leave

 • 2002 legislative approval of study comparing sick leave proposals with existing family leave laws

 • 2001 and 2002 bills introduced  to extend UI to care for new child

 • 2000 bill introduced to provide UI for workers on FMLA leave

 • 2000 commissioned study of UI and family leave

2002 bill introduced to allow workers to use sick leave to attend to family illness

 • 2001 bill introduced for state to share costs of employers who provide paid family and medical leave

 • 2001 bills introduced to create at-home infant care program for low income parents

 • 2001 House passed bipartisan bill to provide up to 12 weeks of UI to care for ill family member

 • 2000 House passed bipartisan bill to provide up to 12 weeks of UI to care for new child

public employees may use sick leave to attend to family illness

 • public employees may use sick leave to attend to family illness

 • maternity disability leave in all companies with 4+ employees

 • 2001 bill introduced to establish at-home infant care program

 • 1998 bill introduced to establish fund for  family leave

2001-2002 bills introduced to provide up to 12 weeks of UI to care for new child

public employees may use sick leave to attend to family illness

all employers must provide adoption leave  (for child under 7)

2001 bill introduced to extend UI to care for new child

up to 4 months maternity disability leave in companies of 25+

* Much of the information in this table was drawn from the National Partnership for Women and Families "State Family Leave Laws That Are More Expansive than the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act" and "State Family Leave Benefit Initiatives in the 2001-2002 State Legislatures"; news sources were also used.