1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to employment; modifying use of personal sick leave benefits;amending 
1.3 	Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.9413.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.9413, is amended to read:
1.6 	181.9413 SICK OR INJURED CHILD CARE LEAVE BENEFITS; CARE 
1.7 	OF RELATIVES.
1.8 	(a) An employee may use personal sick leave benefits provided by the employer 
1.9 	for absences due to an illness of or injury to the employee's minor or adult child, spouse, 
1.10 	sibling, parent, grandparent, or stepparent, for such reasonable periods of time as the 
1.11 	employee's attendance with the child may be necessary, on the same terms upon which 
1.12 	the employee is able to use sick leave benefits for the employee's own illness or injury. 
1.13 	This section applies only to personal sick leave benefits payable to the employee from the 
1.14 	employer's general assets.
1.15 	(b) For purposes of this section, "personal sick leave benefits" means time accrued 
1.16 	and available to an employee to be used as a result of absence from work due to personal 
1.17 	illness or injury, but does not include short-term or long-term disability or other salary 
1.18 	continuation benefits.
1.19 	(c) This section does not prevent an employer from providing greater sick leave 
1.20 	benefits than are provided for under this section, nor does it alter an employer's existing 
1.21 	sick leave policies or labor agreements that allow the use of sick leave for the care of a 
1.22 	minor or adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, or stepparent.

2.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2013, and applies to sick 
2.2 	leave used on or after that date.