The following bills are now effective:
- SHB 2602 (effective April 1, 2008) allows an employee who is a victim, or whose family member is a victim, of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to take unpaid leave or use any accrued leave to recover from and cope with the effects of being a victim.
- SB 6447 (effective June 12, 2008) allows an employee whose military spouse is being deployed or taking leave from deployment to take 15 days of unpaid leave, per deployment, to spend time with the military spouse. An employee may choose to substitute any accrued leave for any portion of the 15 days of unpaid leave.
In addition, SB 6447 changes the paid military leave from 15 days per year to 21 days per year.
- SB 6588 (effective June 12, 2008) This bill allows accumulated leave to be transferred to and from educational service districts, school districts, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, institutions of higher education, or community or technical colleges.
- SSB 6500 (effective October 1, 2008) allows employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to request shared leave. Under this bill, to qualify for shared leave the employee must be the victim (not the employee’s family member as in SHB 2602).