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Read. Follow. Verify.Kentucky Senate Bill 14 grants 30 days of paid maternity leave to full-time state employees
Last action · January 6, 2026: introduced in Senate to Committee on Committees (S)Sponsors: Matt Deneen and 6 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Kentucky full-time executive, judicial, and legislative branch state employees become eligible for up to 30 days of paid maternity leave upon the birth of a child. The leave must be used within one year of birth, cannot be carried over, and must be exhausted before using other accrued leave.
Full-time state employees gain access to four weeks of fully compensated time off for childbirth without drawing down their personal sick or vacation balances.
- State employee benefits and leave policies in Kentucky are governed by statutory provisions and administrative regulations overseen by the General Assembly and personnel agencies. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
full-time state employees
Full-time state employees in executive, judicial, and legislative branches become eligible for up to 30 days of paid maternity leave upon the birth of a child.
Key Facts
- Full-time employees in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of Kentucky state government qualify for up to 30 days of paid maternity leave upon a child's birth.
- Multiple children born during a single pregnancy are treated as one birth, and leave for each child must be taken concurrently.
- Unused paid maternity leave must be used within one year of the child's birth, does not carry over, and cannot be converted into other types of leave, compensation, or retirement benefits.
- Employees may use the 30-day allotment as a continuous 30-day block, or as a 20-day block with the remaining 10 days used separately in continuous blocks or as entire working days intermittently.
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- Employees must request advance approval for leave or provide notice as soon as practicable if advance notice is impossible.
- Paid maternity leave must be exhausted before an employee uses other accrued leave.
- Unused paid maternity leave is not paid out upon separation from state service.
- Conflicting administrative regulations, including 101 KAR 2:102 and 101 KAR 3:015, must be amended, withdrawn, or repealed within 90 days of the Act's effective date.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the Senate.
Procedural history
1 action- Jan 6, 2026SenateIntroducedintroduced in Senate to Committee on Committees (S)
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Establishment of Paid Maternity Leave for State Employees
The bill creates a uniform 30-day paid maternity leave mandate across all three branches of Kentucky state government, overriding conflicting administrative regulations within 90 days.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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