Bill Summary: This proposal allows spouses of deployed soldiers to take certain amounts of time of from work without pay and without fear of retribution from the employer.

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON GENERAL REVENUE FUND
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Total Estimated Net Effect on Other State Funds	$0	$0	$0

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Total Estimated Net Effect on All Federal Funds	$0	$0	$0

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☐ Estimated Total Net Effect on All funds expected to exceed $100,000 savings or (cost).

☐ Estimated Net Effect on General Revenue Fund expected to exceed $100,000 (cost).

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Local Government	$0	$0	$0

Officials from the Missouri Veterans’ Commission and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations each assume the proposal would not fiscally impact their respective agencies.

Officials from the Office of Administration - Personnel Division (OA) states the bill may generate additional lost time or overtime costs for state agencies due to the absences that would occur as a result of the legislation. However, the impact would be limited since most employees who have spouses who are deployed on active duty area already are able to be accommodated for their time-off requested as described by the bill. OA states they would have to defer to state agencies for estimates of overtime costs related to the proposed legislation.

OA states this proposal would duplicate an existing program. On January 28, 2008, the National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law, amending the Family Medical Leave Act to provide eligible employees up to 12 weeks of leave because of "any qualifying exigency" arising out of the fact that the spouse, son, daughter, or parent of the employee is on active duty or has been notified of an impending call to active duty status, in support of a contingency operation. The Department of Labor has yet to define "qualifying exigency"; however, employers have been encouraged to provide this type of leave to eligible employees.

Officials from the Department of Transportation (MoDOT) state they cannot determine an estimated number of employees who may have a spouse in the armed services that could be called to active duty. However, MoDOT has approximately 70 out of 6,000 employees that are in the armed services, so its reasonable to expect that this could be an estimated number of potential employees who have may have a spouse in the armed services.

This bill provides for unpaid leave, so the fiscal impact would not be that significant to the department. Currently, employees could use any available vacation or compensatory time if they would want paid time off. This bill would allow employees without any available vacation/comp. time to take off work without pay for no more than two weeks.

MoDOT also states that this proposal would duplicate, in part, a provision added to the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in January 2008. The new FMLA provision allows a spouse, son, daughter or parent of a covered servicemember) up to 12 weeks of leave during any 12 month period. Under the FMLA, only employees who have 1 year of service and have worked at least 1,250 hours at a work site with at least 50 employees is eligible for this leave. The leave under

the FMLA may only be taken for “qualifying exigencies”, which are those for which there is an “urgent need”.

Officials from the Missouri Department of Conservation assume the proposal would not fiscally impact their agency.

Oversight will assume state agencies will be able to absorb the potential additional costs that may result from this proposal.

No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.

This legislation is not federally mandated and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space. The proposal may duplicate recent changes made to the Family Medical Leave Act.

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