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AB 437 — Limits the amount and circumstances under which a provider of health care may charge for filling out certain forms associated with certain leaves of absence. (BDR 54-670)
Last action — Vetoed by the Governor.
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Assembly
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✓Passed Senate
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5To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill died with 2023 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Vetoed by Governor Joe Lombardo (Republican) on June 16, 2023.
This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.
Bill Text
What changed in the latest version
42 added · 55 removed42 line(s) added, 55 removed.
(ReprintedAssembly withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on May 24, 2023) FIRST REPRINT A.B.
437437–Committee Aon SSEMBLYCommerce Band ILLNLabor O.CHAPTER..........
437–COMMITTEE ON C OMMERCE AND LABOR M ARCH 27, 2023 ____________ Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor SUMMARY—Limits the amount and circumstances under which a provider of health care may charge for filling out certain forms associated with certain leaves of absence.
(BDR 54-670) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
No.
Effect on the State:
No.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, certain employees have the right to take an unpaid leave of absence from work for certain medical or family thereasons, employeeincluding, thatwithout makeslimitation: the employee unable to perform the functions of his or herof position;
(1) because of a serious health condition of the employee that makes the employee unable to perform the functions of his or her position;
§ 2612) The Act authorizes an employer of an employee who requests leave for one of those reasons to require the employee to provide a certification issued by a health care provider that contains certain information concerning the serious health condition or serious injury or illness.
§§ 825.305-825.310) This bill prohibits a provider of health care from charging a person any fee or charge to fill out a form for such a certification if the provider of health care has examined, treated orormor otherwise provided health care services to the person who is the subject of the not examined, treated or otherwise provided health care services to the person whohas is the subject of the certification within the immediately preceding 3 years.years, this bill prohibits the provider of health care from charging more than $25 to fill out such a form.
IfEXPLANATION the– providerMatter ofin healthbolded hasitalics not examined, treated or otherwise provided health care services to the person who is thenew; subject of the certification within the immediately preceding 3 years, this bill - *AB437_R1* – 2 – prohibits the provider of health care from charging more than $25 to fill out such a form.
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
- 82nd Session (2023) – 2 – 2.
H~~~~~ 23 - *AB437_R1*82nd Session (2023)
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- Introduced As Introduced pdf
Amendments
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Action History
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Vetoed by the Governor.
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Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
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Senate Amendment No. 553 concurred in. To enrollment.
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From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 5, Excused: 1.) To Assembly. In Assembly.
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From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 553.) To printer.
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In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
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Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 28, Nays: 14.) To Senate.
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Read second time.
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From committee: Do pass.
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From printer. To committee.
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Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
Sponsors
- Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 66 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
- Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (66)
66 members have not signed on to this bill.
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Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- Who sponsors AB 437?
- AB 437 is sponsored by Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor.
- What is the current status of AB 437?
- This bill died with 2023 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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