2009
Legislative Session
Human
Resource/Employee Bills
2/20/2009
H.B.
2103 -- provides for a comprehensive drug and alcohol free program
for miners
H.B.
2113 -- provides overtime pay for all employees who are required to work
holidays regardless if the holiday hours are in excess of a 40-hour workweek
H.B.
2236 -- makes the use of permanent replacements for striking workers an
unfair labor practice by employers who have employee stock ownership plans
H.B.
2247 – establishes that an employee has the right to decline to work more
than 40 hours in any one workweek
H.B.
2248 -- requires employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for
all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises
H.B.
2259 – establishes the drug free mine act
H.B.
2272 -- establishes the Flexible Leave Act and allows for the use of earned
leave with pay for an illness in an employee's immediate family
H.B.
2289 – changes the amount a person can earn while receiving unemployment
compensation benefits, without it changing the benefits received, from $60 a
week to 40 percent of the person's weekly benefit rate.
H.B.
2300 -- excludes certain employment-related expenses from the definition of
gross income for purposes of determining child support.
H.B.
2355 – removes certain exceptions in the definitions of
"employer" and "employee" covered by the
H.B.
2377 – provides for the adequate staffing of nursing homes and training of
nursing home staff
H.B.
2411 - requires that workplace fatalities be reported to the Division of
Labor
H.B.
2416 – relates to worker's compensation benefits to volunteer firefighters
for cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases or a cardiovascular injury.
H.B.
2425 - requiring employers to provide health insurance to employees
working on public improvement projects.
H.B.
2430 – relates to workers' compensation coverage for certain employees who
perform duties attendant to racing activities
H.B.
2441 – strengthens the protections for whistleblowers of unsafe working
conditions in mines
H.B.
2454 – establishes added unlawful discriminatory practices; prohibiting
discrimination based upon age and sexual orientation
H.B.
2478 – requires that workers on
public improvement projects valued at $1 million or more be covered by health
care insurance
H.B.
2678 -- provides for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person
misses work due to domestic violence