Create Legislative Leave Job Protection for General Assembly Members

The bill authorizes legislative leave and job protection for qualified members of the general assembly (qualified members) who are engaged in employment outside of their duties related to the general assembly. More specifically, the bill states that:

• A qualified member can take a leave of absence from their outside employment during regular and special legislative sessions;
• A qualified member's outside employer has discretion to grant legislative leave as paid, unpaid, or partially paid;
• A qualified member's outside employer cannot terminate the qualified member's outside employment on the basis that the qualified member requests or takes legislative leave; and
• When a qualified member returns to their outside employment following legislative leave, the qualified member is entitled to be restored to the same or an equivalent employment position.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)