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REFERENCE TITLE: legislative employment leave |
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State of Arizona Senate Forty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session 2010
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SB 1228 |
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Introduced by Senators Burton Cahill: Aboud, Alvarez, Garcia, Hale, Landrum Taylor; Representatives Ableser, Lopes
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AN ACT
AMENDING TITLE 23, chapter 9, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding article 2; relating to legislative employment leave.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 23, chapter 9, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding article 2, to read:
ARTICLE 2. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE
23-1521. Absence from employment for legislative service; vacation and seniority rights; violation; classification
A. An employer shall not refuse to permit a member of the Arizona legislature from taking a leave of absence from employment for the purpose of fulfilling the legislator's obligation as an elected official. The leave of absence shall not affect vacation rights that an employee otherwise has, except that an employer need not consider the period of absence as a period of work performed for the employer in determining eligibility for vacation and the amount of vacation pay to which the employee is entitled.
B. A member of the Arizona legislature shall not lose seniority or precedence while fulfilling the legislator's obligation as an elected official. On return to employment the employer shall return the employee to the employee's previous position or to a higher position commensurate with the employee's ability and experience as seniority or precedence would ordinarily entitle the employee.
C. An employer violating this section is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.