The purpose of the state employee family leave program is to:
(1) provide eligible state employees more flexibility in:
- (A) bonding with and caring for children during a child's first year following birth, adoption, or foster placement; and
- (B) caring for a seriously ill family member or the employee, including pandemic-related illnesses or complications caused by a pandemic; and
- (2) allow employees to apply for leave time under the family leave pool.
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 684 (H.B. 2063), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.