Paid Parental Leave

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Paid Parental Leave; Defining the term “paid parental leave”; requiring the state to provide paid parental leave to certain employees for a specified period of time; prohibiting the state from requiring that an employee use his or her annual or sick leave for paid parental leave; providing that the employee is entitled to accumulate specified benefits during such leave, etc.

Every action

4 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Oct 17, 2025SenateFiled
2. Nov 3, 2025CommitteeReferred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations · Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
3. Jan 13, 2026SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 13, 2026CommitteeDied in Governmental Oversight and Accountability · Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 1 cosponsor: 1 Democrat.

• Carlos Guillermo SmithD Primary sponsor · District 17