Prohibits public employers from taking retaliatory adverse personnel actions against employees who use sick leave or compensatory time to quarantine, seek medical treatment, or for other absences related to COVID-19.
Grants time off for public employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit for individuals who reported to their usual place of employment or an alternate worksite at the direction of their employer on or after March 1, 2020 and such individual contracted COVID-19 within 45 days of reporting to such workplace as confirmed by a laboratory test or by a licensed physician and such individual died on or before December 31, 2022.
Provides for the authorization and regulation of visitation of compassionate care-giving visitors at nursing homes and residential health care facilities.
Enacts the "reimagining long-term care task force act" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care services in this state.
Requires public employers to adopt a plan for operations in the event of a declared state disaster emergency involving a communicable disease; establishes certain protocols necessary for responding to a declared state disaster emergency involving a communicable disease in an educational setting.
