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AlabamaSB1992025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

State employees; paid parental leave authorized, parameters for eligibility established

Sponsored By: Vivian Davis Figures (Democratic)

Enacted

Labor & Employment

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Public workers gain leave with return requirements

Beginning July 1, 2025, eligible Alabama state, local education agency, and community college system employees get paid parental leave. Employees need 12 consecutive months of employment immediately before the event, which must occur on or after that date. For birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage, female employees get eight weeks and male employees get two weeks. The law defines miscarriage as loss after 12 weeks of pregnancy and stillbirth as loss after 20 weeks. Adoption placement qualifies for eight weeks when the child is age three or younger; jointly adopting eligible parents receive eight and two weeks. Pay stays at 100% of base pay without using sick, annual, or other leave. Employees must submit a written leave plan and agree to stay employed for at least eight weeks after related leave ends. Agencies may waive the return requirement for serious health circumstances; failure to comply can lead to repayment through offsets. Emergency paperwork is due as soon as practical after the emergency ends. Leave covers only one qualifying event per 365 days and must end within 365 days of the event or leave's start, whichever comes sooner. Split or reduced-schedule leave is allowed, but bonding schedules require advance agency agreement, and birth or adoption leave requires a continuing parental role. Leave runs alongside applicable state leave and federal family and medical leave, rather than adding to those leave periods. Employers keep paying their health coverage share; employees keep paying theirs. Employees return to the same or an equivalent job with equivalent pay, benefits, seniority, status, and terms. Local education agency employees return to their prior teaching grade unless they agree otherwise. Unused leave has no cash, retirement, or rollover value. Implementing agencies must use forms and procedures that are not unduly burdensome and provide written leave-rights notices at hiring. They must publish annual reports covering the prior fiscal year by October 1, 2026, and each October 1 through 2030.

State workers face tighter leave donation limits

Beginning July 1, 2025, Alabama state employees can no longer receive donated leave for family or adoption leave. Donations of unused annual, sick, or compensatory leave remain available for employees who qualify for catastrophic sick leave. The donor's appointing authority must approve; State Personnel Board approval is also required when the donor's pay grade is lower. The recipient's appointing authority may limit hours per catastrophic illness. Receiving more than 480 donated hours during a state career requires State Personnel Board approval.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Vivian Davis Figures

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Andrew Jones

    Republican • Senate

  • Arthur Orr

    Republican • Senate

  • Clyde Chambliss

    Republican • Senate

  • David Sessions

    Republican • Senate

  • Donnie Chesteen

    Republican • Senate

  • Garlan Gudger

    Republican • Senate

  • Gerald H. Allen

    Republican • Senate

  • Greg Albritton

    Republican • Senate

  • J. T. 'Jabo' Waggoner

    Republican • Senate

  • Jack W. Williams

    Republican • Senate

  • Josh Carnley

    Republican • Senate

  • Keith Kelley

    Republican • Senate

  • Kirk Hatcher

    Democratic • Senate

  • Lance Bell

    Republican • Senate

  • Linda Coleman-Madison

    Democratic • Senate

  • Robert Stewart

    Democratic • Senate

  • Rodger M. Smitherman

    Democratic • Senate

  • Sam Givhan

    Republican • Senate

  • Steve Livingston

    Republican • Senate

  • Tim Melson

    Republican • Senate

  • Tom Butler

    Republican • Senate

  • Wes Kitchens

    Republican • Senate

  • William M. Beasley

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 286 • No: 7

House vote • 3/20/2025

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 524

Yes: 94 • No: 2 • Other: 2

House vote • 3/20/2025

Third Reading in Second House

Yes: 100 • No: 2 • Other: 1

Senate vote • 3/5/2025

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 262

Yes: 28 • No: 3

Senate vote • 3/5/2025

Third Reading in House of Origin

Yes: 32 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/5/2025

Figures motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 261

Yes: 32 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Enacted

    4/2/2025Senate

  2. Ready to Enroll

    4/1/2025Senate

  3. Enrolled

    4/1/2025Senate

  4. Signature Requested

    4/1/2025House

  5. Delivered to Governor

    4/1/2025Senate

  6. Third Reading in Second House

    3/20/2025House

  7. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 524

    3/20/2025House

  8. Reported Out of Committee Second House

    3/19/2025House

  9. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    3/19/2025House

  10. Engrossed

    3/6/2025Senate

  11. Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education

    3/6/2025House

  12. Pending Committee Action in Second House

    3/6/2025House

  13. Third Reading in House of Origin

    3/5/2025Senate

  14. Figures 1st Amendment Offered

    3/5/2025Senate

  15. Figures motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 261

    3/5/2025Senate

  16. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 262

    3/5/2025Senate

  17. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    2/27/2025Senate

  18. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin

    2/26/2025Senate

  19. Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education

    2/25/2025Senate

  20. Pending Committee Action in House of Origin

    2/25/2025Senate

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