Ohio H.B. 40, 128^th General Assembly
Leave for Parenting Time
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_40

• Requires an employer to allow an employee who is a parent to exercise parenting time pursuant to a court order without terminating the parent's employment, reducing the parent's pay, or taking any other similar adverse action against the parent.
• Defines "employer" for purposes of the requirement in the first dot point to mean any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce who employs 50 or employees for each working day during at least 20 or more calendar work weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, a person acting in the interest of such an employer to any employees of the employer, a successor in interest to any such employer, or any public agency.

Introduced by: Representative Tom Letson (D), District 64
Co-Sponsors: Ujvagi, Hagan, B. Williams, Fende, Yuko, Foley, Boyd, Celeste, Stewart, Domenick, Gerberry, Winburn, Patten, Mallory, Luckie

The bill requires an "employer" to allow an employee who has been granted parenting time by a court to exercise that parenting time without loss of employment or pay.
A parent who has been granted parenting time pursuant to an order issued under R.C. Title 21 (juvenile courts) or 31 (domestic relations and children) or by a court of competent jurisdiction of any other state may provide the parent's employer with a copy of the schedule of parenting time created pursuant to the order if parenting time coincides with the parent's regularly scheduled hours of employment.  Upon receipt of the schedule, the employer must allow the parent to exercise parenting time according to the schedule.  The employer may not terminate the parent's employment, reduce the parent's pay, or take any other similar adverse action against the parent for exercising the parenting time.  (R.C. 3109.054(B).)

Date introduced: 2/24/09
Committee Assigned: Judiciary, Chair: Sandra Stabile Harwood (D)