BHB/7/14
Sponsored by Hannah Nguyen, Paxon Garner of John Overton High School
This legislation was filed in the Labor and Workforce Development category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT |
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| 3 | Section 1: The terms in this act will be defined as follows: |
| 4 | a. Eligible workers- Those who's conditions paid family and medical leave is available. If you need |
| 5 | to recover from a serious health condition; welcome a new child by birth, adoption, or foster care |
| 6 | placement; provide care to a family member with a serious illness; serve as an organ or bone |
| 7 | marrow donor; or to care for an injured service member. |
| 8 | b. Employee- Synonymous with worker; anybody working for wages or salary. |
| 9 | b. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)- Federal labor law requiring covered employers to provide |
| 10 | employees with job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. |
| 11 | c. Payroll deduction- Wages withheld from an employee’s total earnings for the purpose of paying |
| 12 | presented benefits. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Section 2: Eligible workers in Tennessee will be able to request and take paid family leave. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Section 3: Employees must have been employed for at least 12 months, worked for a company |
| 17 | with at least 20 employees, and worked a minimum of 1000 hours. The support will last for 12 |
| 18 | weeks. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Section 4: Shall this program be enacted; paid family and medical leave will be entirely employee |
| 21 | funded by small payroll deductions. Workers would begin to contribute 0.5% of their weekly |
| 22 | earnings up to $168,600 although, with this the earning maximum would be indexed for the year |
| 23 | of the effective date. This act does not require annual appropriation from the state budget. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Section 5: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed and issued necessary |
| 26 | addendum. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Section 6: This act shall take effect as soon as January 1, 2025, to begin allowing employees to |
| 29 | start contributing to their future benefits. Applications to submit a paid family and medical leave |
| 30 | claim will begin on December 1, 2025, for benefitting events happening on or after January 1, |
| 31 | 2026. Eligible workers will begin to receive benefits on January 1, 2026. Changes to Tennessee's |
| 32 | current Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) will also take effect on January 1, 2026. |
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