House File 488 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY JACOBY, McCARTHY, and HEATON Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act concerning employment protection for members of the 2 national disaster medical system and providing an effective 3 date and applicability provision. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 2573HH 82 6 ec/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 29A.28, subsection 1, Code 2007, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. All officers and employees of the state, or a 1 4 subdivision thereof, or a municipality other than employees 1 5 employed temporarily for six months or less, who are members 1 6 of the national guard, organized reserves or any component 1 7 part of the military, naval, or air forces or nurse corps of 1 8 this state or nation, or who are or may be otherwise inducted 1 9 into the military service of this state or of the United 1 10 States, or who are members of the civil air patrol, shall, 1 11 when ordered by proper authority to state active duty, state 1 12 military service, or federal service, or when performing a 1 13 civil air patrol mission pursuant to section 29A.3A, be 1 14 entitled to a leave of absence from such civil employment for 1 15 the period of state active duty, state military service, 1 16 federal service, or civil air patrol duty without loss of 1 17 status or efficiency rating, and without loss of pay during 1 18 the first thirty days of such leave of absence. Where state 1 19 active duty, state military service, federal service, or civil 1 20 air patrol duty is for a period of less than thirty days, a 1 21 leave of absence under this section shall only be required for 1 22 those days that the civil employee would normally perform 1 23 services for the state, subdivision of the state, or a 1 24 municipality. The provisions of this section shall also apply 1 25 to a leave of absence by a member of the national disaster 1 26 medical system of the United States when activated for federal 1 27 service with the system. 1 28 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 1 29 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and is 1 30 applicable on and after that date. 1 31 Sec. 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT. Section 25B.2, subsection 1 32 3, Code 2007, shall not apply to this Act. 1 33 EXPLANATION 1 34 This bill provides that the leave of absence protections 1 35 applicable to members of the military who are activated for 2 1 military service shall also apply to members of the national 2 2 disaster medical system of the United States when they are 2 3 called to federal service. Current law, made applicable to 2 4 members of the national disaster medical system by this bill, 2 5 provides that members activated for military or federal 2 6 service are entitled to a leave of absence from governmental 2 7 employment for the period of military or federal service 2 8 without loss of status or efficiency rating, and without loss 2 9 of pay during the first 30 days of such leave of absence. 2 10 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 2 11 section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 2 12 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political 2 13 subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for 2 14 the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. 2 15 Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with 2 16 any state mandate included in the bill. 2 17 LSB 2573HH 82 2 18 ec:nh/gg/14