23-1498

LRB-1498/P2

MIM:amn

2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

DOA:......Sherwin, BB0349 - State Employee Paid Family and Medical Leave

For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction

An Act ...; relating to: the budget.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

employment

State employment

Paid family and medical leave

This bill requires the administrator of the Division of Personnel Management in DOA to develop a program for paid family and medical leave of 12 weeks annually for most state employees. The bill requires the administrator to submit the plan for approval as a change to the state compensation plan to the Joint Committee on Employment Relations. If JCOER approves the plan, the plan becomes effective immediately.

The bill also requires the Board of Regents of the UW System to develop a plan for a program for paid family and medical leave of 12 weeks annually for employees of the system and requires the board to submit the plan to the administrator of the Division of Personnel Management in DOA with its compensation plan changes for the 2023-25 biennium.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. 230.12 (9m) of the statutes is created to read:

230.12 (9m) Paid family and medical leave. (a) Definitions. In this subsection:

1. “Family leave” means leave from employment for a reason specified in s. 103.10 (3) (b) 1. to 3.

2. “Medical leave” means leave from employment when an employee has a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform his or her employment duties, or makes the employee unable to perform the duties of any suitable employment.

3. “Serious health condition” has the meaning given in s. 103.10 (1) (g).

(b) Program. The administrator shall develop and recommend to the joint committee on employment relations a program, administered by the division, that provides paid family and medical leave for 12 weeks per year to employees whose compensation is established under this section or s. 20.923 (2) or (3) but does not include employees of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. The approval process for the program is the same as that provided under sub. (3) (b), and, if approved, the program shall be incorporated into the compensation plan under sub. (1).

Section 9101. Nonstatutory provisions; Administration.

(1) Paid family and medical leave. If the paid family and medical leave program under s. 230.12 (9m) is approved by the joint committee on employment relations, it shall go into effect immediately upon approval by the joint committee on employment relations.

Section 9147. Nonstatutory provisions; University of Wisconsin System.

(1) Paid family and medical leave.

(a) Definitions. In this subsection:

1. “Family leave” means leave from employment for a reason specified in s. 103.10 (3) (b) 1. to 3.

3. “Serious health condition” has the meaning given in s. 103.10 (1) (g).

(b) Program plan. The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System shall submit to the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of administration, with its recommendations for adjustments to compensation and employee benefits for employees of the system under s. 230.12 (3) (e) 1. for 2023-25, a plan for a program to provide paid family and medical leave for 12 weeks annually to employees of the system.

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