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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 1002
To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United
States Code, to permit leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-
in-law, or adult child, or another related individual, who has a serious
health condition, and to allow employees to take, as additional leave,
parental involvement and family wellness leave to participate in or attend
their children’s and grandchildren’s educational and extracurricular ac-
tivities or meet family care needs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY5, 2025
Mrs. H
AYES(for herself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. THOMPSONof Mississippi, Mr.
D
AVISof Illinois, Mr. BEYER, Ms. STANSBURY, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCOR-
MICK, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. CLARKEof New
York, Mr. F
ROST, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MAGAZINER, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illi-
nois, Mr. D
ELUZIO, Mr. GOLDMANof New York, Mr. SMITHof Wash-
ington, Mr. C
ARSON, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Ms.
D
ELAURO, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. PRESSLEY,
Mrs. W
ATSONCOLEMAN, Mr. OLSZEWSKI, Ms. MCBRIDE, Ms. UNDER-
WOOD, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. COHEN, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. MCGARVEY, and
Ms. O
MAR) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees
on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and
title 5, United States Code, to permit leave to care
for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, or adult child,
or another related individual, who has a serious health
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condition, and to allow employees to take, as additional
leave, parental involvement and family wellness leave to
participate in or attend their children’s and grand-
children’s educational and extracurricular activities or
meet family care needs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Caring for All Families 4
Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. LEAVE TO CARE FOR A DOMESTIC PARTNER, SON- 6
IN-LAW, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PARENT-IN-LAW, 7
ADULT CHILD, GRANDPARENT, GRANDCHILD, 8
OR SIBLING OF THE EMPLOYEE, OR AN-9
OTHER RELATED INDIVIDUAL. 10
(a) D
EFINITIONS.— 11
(1) I
NCLUSION OF RELATED INDIVIDUALS .— 12
Section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 13
1993 (29 U.S.C. 2611) is amended by adding at the 14
end the following: 15
‘‘(20) A
NY OTHER INDIVIDUAL WHOSE CLOSE 16
ASSOCIATION IS THE EQUIVALENT OF A FAMILY RE -17
LATIONSHIP.—The term ‘any other individual whose 18
close association is the equivalent of a family rela-19
tionship’, used with respect to an employee or a cov-20
ered servicemember, means any person with whom 21
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the employee or covered servicemember, as the case 1
may be, has a significant personal bond that is or 2
is like a family relationship, regardless of biological 3
or legal relationship. 4
‘‘(21) D
OMESTIC PARTNER.—The term ‘domes-5
tic partner’, used with respect to an employee or a 6
covered servicemember, means— 7
‘‘(A) the person recognized as the domestic 8
partner of the employee or covered servicemem-9
ber under any domestic partnership or civil 10
union law of a State or political subdivision of 11
a State; or 12
‘‘(B) in the case of an unmarried employee 13
or covered servicemember, an unmarried adult 14
person who is in a committed, personal relation-15
ship with the employee or covered servicemem-16
ber, is not a domestic partner as described in 17
subparagraph (A) to or in such a relationship 18
with any other person, and who is designated to 19
the employer by such employee or covered serv-20
ice member as the domestic partner of that em-21
ployee or covered servicemember. 22
‘‘(22) G
RANDCHILD.—The term ‘grandchild’, 23
used with respect to an employee or a covered serv-24
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icemember, means the son or daughter of a son or 1
daughter of the employee or covered service member. 2
‘‘(23) G
RANDPARENT.—The term ‘grand-3
parent’, used with respect to an employee or a cov-4
ered servicemember, means a parent of a parent of 5
the employee or covered service member. 6
‘‘(24) N
EPHEW; NIECE.—The terms ‘nephew’ 7
and ‘niece’, used with respect to an employee or a 8
covered servicemember, mean a son or daughter of 9
the sibling of the employee or covered service mem-10
ber. 11
‘‘(25) P
ARENT-IN-LAW.—The term ‘parent-in- 12
law’, used with respect to an employee or a covered 13
servicemember, means a parent of the spouse or do-14
mestic partner of the employee or covered service 15
member. 16
‘‘(26) S
IBLING.—The term ‘sibling’, used with 17
respect to an employee or a covered servicemember, 18
means any person who is a son or daughter of par-19
ent of the employee or covered service member 20
(other than the employee or covered servicemember). 21
‘‘(27) S
ON-IN-LAW; DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.—The 22
terms ‘son-in-law’ and ‘daughter-in-law’, used with 23
respect to an employee or a covered servicemember, 24
mean any person who is a spouse or domestic part-25
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ner of a son or daughter, as the case may be, of the 1
employee or covered service member. 2
‘‘(28) U
NCLE; AUNT.—The terms ‘uncle’ and 3
‘aunt’, used with respect to an employee or a covered 4
servicemember, mean the son or daughter, as the 5
case may be, of the grandparent of the employee or 6
covered servicemember (other than the parent of the 7
employee or covered service member).’’. 8
(2) I
NCLUSION OF ADULT CHILDREN AND CHIL -9
DREN OF A DOMESTIC PARTNER .—Section 101(12) 10
of such Act (29 U.S.C. 2611(12)) is amended— 11
(A) by inserting ‘‘a child of an individual’s 12
domestic partner,’’ after ‘‘a legal ward,’’; and 13
(B) by striking ‘‘who is—’’ and all that 14
follows and inserting ‘‘and includes an adult 15
child.’’. 16
(b) L
EAVEREQUIREMENT.—Section 102 of the Fam-17
ily and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2612) is 18
amended— 19
(1) in subsection (a)— 20
(A) in paragraph (1)— 21
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 22
‘‘spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent, of 23
the employee, if such spouse, son, daugh-24
ter, or parent’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or 25
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domestic partner, or a son or daughter, 1
son-in-law or daughter-in-law, parent, par-2
ent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sib-3
ling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece of 4
the employee, or any other individual 5
whose close association is the equivalent of 6
a family relationship with the employee, if 7
such spouse, domestic partner, son or 8
daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, 9
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grand-10
child, sibling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or 11
niece, or such other individual’’; and 12
(ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 13
‘‘spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent of 14
the employee’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or do-15
mestic partner, or a son or daughter, son- 16
in-law or daughter-in-law, parent, parent- 17
in-law, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, 18
or nephew or niece of the employee, or any 19
other individual whose close association is 20
the equivalent of a family relationship with 21
the employee’’; and 22
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘spouse, 23
son, daughter, parent, or next of kin of a cov-24
ered servicemember’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or 25
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domestic partner, son or daughter, son-in-law 1
or daughter-in-law, parent, parent-in-law, 2
grandparent, sibling, uncle or aunt, nephew or 3
niece, or next of kin of a covered servicemem-4
ber, or any other individual whose close associa-5
tion is the equivalent of a family relationship 6
with the covered servicemember’’; 7
(2) in subsection (e)— 8
(A) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘son, 9
daughter, spouse, parent, or covered service-10
member of the employee, as appropriate’’ and 11
inserting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law or 12
daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, 13
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, 14
sibling, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, or cov-15
ered servicemember of the employee, or any 16
other individual whose close association is the 17
equivalent of a family relationship with the em-18
ployee, as appropriate’’; and 19
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘spouse, 20
or a son, daughter, or parent, of the employee’’ 21
and inserting ‘‘spouse or domestic partner, or a 22
son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, 23
parent, parent-in-law, grandchild, sibling, uncle 24
or aunt, or nephew or niece of the employee, or 25
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any other individual whose close association is 1
the equivalent of a family relationship with the 2
employee, as appropriate,’’; and 3
(3) in subsection (f)— 4
(A) in paragraph (1)— 5
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-6
graph (A), by inserting ‘‘, or domestic 7
partners,’’ after ‘‘husband and wife’’; and 8
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 9
‘‘or parent-in-law’’ after ‘‘parent’’; and 10
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, or 11
those domestic partners,’’ after ‘‘husband and 12
wife’’ each place it appears. 13
(c) C
ERTIFICATION.—Section 103 of the Family and 14
Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2613) is amend-15
ed— 16
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘son, daugh-17
ter, spouse, or parent of the employee, or of the next 18
of kin of an individual in the case of leave taken 19
under such paragraph (3), as appropriate’’ and in-20
serting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in- 21
law, spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in- 22
law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, 23
or nephew or niece of the employee, or the next of 24
kin of an individual, or any other individual whose 25
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close association is the equivalent of a family rela-1
tionship with the employee, as appropriate’’; and 2
(2) in subsection (b)— 3
(A) in paragraph (4)(A), by striking ‘‘son, 4
daughter, spouse, or parent and an estimate of 5
the amount of time that such employee is need-6
ed to care for the son, daughter, spouse, or par-7
ent’’ and inserting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law 8
or daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, 9
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, 10
sibling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece of the 11
employee, or any other individual whose close 12
association is the equivalent of a family rela-13
tionship with the employee, as appropriate, and 14
an estimate of the amount of time that such 15
employee is needed to care for such son or 16
daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, spouse 17
or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, 18
grandparent, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, 19
or nephew or niece, or such other individual’’; 20
and 21
(B) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘son, 22
daughter, parent, or spouse who has a serious 23
health condition, or will assist in their recov-24
ery,’’ and inserting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law 25
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or daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, 1
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, 2
sibling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece, with 3
a serious health condition, of the employee, or 4
an individual, with a serious health condition, 5
who is any other individual whose close associa-6
tion is the equivalent of a family relationship 7
with the employee, as appropriate, or will assist 8
in the recovery,’’. 9
(d) E
MPLOYMENT AND BENEFITSPROTECTION.— 10
Section 104(c)(3) of the Family and Medical Leave Act 11
of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2614(c)(3)) is amended— 12
(1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘son, 13
daughter, spouse, or parent of the employee, as ap-14
propriate,’’ and inserting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in- 15
law or daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, 16
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sib-17
ling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece of the em-18
ployee, or any other individual whose close associa-19
tion is the equivalent of a family relationship with 20
the employee, as appropriate,’’; and 21
(2) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking ‘‘son, 22
daughter, spouse, or parent’’ and inserting ‘‘employ-23
ee’s son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, 24
spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, 25
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grandparent, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, or 1
nephew or niece, or (with relation to the employee) 2
any other individual whose close association is the 3
equivalent of a family relationship, as appropriate,’’. 4
SEC. 3. LEAVE TO CARE FOR A DOMESTIC PARTNER, SON- 5
IN-LAW, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PARENT-IN-LAW, 6
ADULT CHILD, GRANDPARENT, GRANDCHILD, 7
OR SIBLING OF THE EMPLOYEE, OR AN-8
OTHER RELATED INDIVIDUAL FOR FEDERAL 9
EMPLOYEES. 10
(a) D
EFINITIONS.— 11
(1) I
NCLUSION OF A DOMESTIC PARTNER , SON- 12
IN-LAW, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PARENT-IN-LAW, ADULT 13
CHILD, GRANDPARENT, GRANDCHILD, OR SIBLING 14
OF THE EMPLOYEE , OR ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL 15
WHOSE CLOSE ASSOCIATION IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 16
A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP .—Section 6381 of title 5, 17
United States Code, is amended— 18
(A) in paragraph (11) by striking ‘‘; and’’ 19
and inserting a semicolon; 20
(B) in paragraph (12), by striking the pe-21
riod and inserting a semicolon; and 22
(C) by adding at the end the following: 23
‘‘(13) the term ‘any other individual whose 24
close association is the equivalent of a family rela-25
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tionship’, used with respect to an employee or a cov-1
ered servicemember, means any person with whom 2
the employee or covered servicemember, as the case 3
may be, has a significant personal bond that is or 4
is like a family relationship, regardless of biological 5
or legal relationship; 6
‘‘(14) the term ‘domestic partner’, used with re-7
spect to an employee or a covered servicemember, 8
means— 9
‘‘(A) the person recognized as the domestic 10
partner of the employee or covered servicemem-11
ber under any domestic partnership or civil 12
union law of a State or political subdivision of 13
a State; or 14
‘‘(B) in the case of an unmarried employee 15
or covered servicemember, an unmarried adult 16
person who is in a committed, personal relation-17
ship with the employee or covered servicemem-18
ber, is not a domestic partner as described in 19
subparagraph (A) to or in such a relationship 20
with any other person, and who is designated to 21
the employing agency by such employee or cov-22
ered service member as the domestic partner of 23
that employee or covered servicemember; 24
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‘‘(15) the term ‘grandchild’, used with respect 1
to an employee or a covered servicemember, means 2
the son or daughter of a son or daughter of the em-3
ployee or covered service member; 4
‘‘(16) the term ‘grandparent’, used with respect 5
to an employee or a covered servicemember, means 6
a parent of a parent of the employee or covered serv-7
ice member; 8
‘‘(17) the terms ‘nephew’ and ‘niece’, used with 9
respect to an employee or a covered servicemember, 10
mean a son or daughter of the sibling of the em-11
ployee or covered service member; 12
‘‘(18) the term ‘parent-in-law’, used with re-13
spect to an employee or a covered servicemember, 14
means a parent of the spouse or domestic partner of 15
the employee or covered service member; 16
‘‘(19) the term ‘sibling’, used with respect to an 17
employee or a covered servicemember, means any 18
person who is a son or daughter of parent of the em-19
ployee or covered service member (other than the 20
employee or covered servicemember); 21
‘‘(20) the terms ‘son-in-law’ and ‘daughter-in- 22
law’, used with respect to an employee or a covered 23
servicemember, mean any person who is a spouse or 24
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domestic partner of a son or daughter, as the case 1
may be, of the employee or covered service member; 2
‘‘(21) the term ‘State’ has the same meaning 3
given the term in section 3 of the Fair Labor Stand-4
ards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203); and 5
‘‘(22) terms ‘uncle’ and ‘aunt’, used with re-6
spect to an employee or a covered servicemember, 7
mean the son or daughter, as the case may be, of 8
the grandparent of the employee or covered service-9
member (other than the parent of the employee or 10
covered service member).’’. 11
(2) I
NCLUSION OF ADULT CHILDREN AND CHIL -12
DREN OF A DOMESTIC PARTNER .—Section 6381(6) 13
of such title is amended— 14
(A) by inserting ‘‘a child of an individual’s 15
domestic partner,’’ after ‘‘a legal ward,’’; and 16
(B) by striking ‘‘who is—’’ and all that 17
follows and inserting ‘‘and includes an adult 18
child’’. 19
(b) L
EAVEREQUIREMENT.—Section 6382 of title 5, 20
United States Code, is amended— 21
(1) in subsection (a)— 22
(A) in paragraph (1)— 23
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 24
‘‘spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent, of 25
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the employee, if such spouse, son, daugh-1
ter, or parent’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or 2
domestic partner, or a son or daughter, 3
son-in-law or daughter-in-law, parent, par-4
ent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sib-5
ling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece of 6
the employee, or any other individual 7
whose close association with the employee 8
is the equivalent of a family relationship, if 9
such spouse, domestic partner, son or 10
daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, 11
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grand-12
child, sibling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or 13
niece, or such other individual’’; and 14
(ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 15
‘‘spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent of 16
the employee’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or do-17
mestic partner, or a son or daughter, son- 18
in-law or daughter-in-law, parent, parent- 19
in-law, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, 20
or nephew or niece of the employee, or any 21
other individual whose close association is 22
the equivalent of a family relationship with 23
the employee’’; and 24
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(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘spouse, 1
son, daughter, parent, or next of kin of a cov-2
ered servicemember’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or 3
domestic partner, son or daughter, son-in-law 4
or daughter-in-law, parent, parent-in-law, 5
grandparent, sibling, uncle or aunt, nephew or 6
niece, or next of kin of a covered servicemem-7
ber, or any other individual whose close associa-8
tion is the equivalent of a family relationship 9
with the covered servicemember’’; and 10
(2) in subsection (e)— 11
(A) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘son, 12
daughter, spouse, parent, or covered service-13
member of the employee, as appropriate’’ and 14
inserting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law or 15
daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, 16
parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, 17
sibling, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, or cov-18
ered servicemember of the employee, or any 19
other individual whose close association is the 20
equivalent of a family relationship with the em-21
ployee, as appropriate’’; and 22
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘spouse, 23
or a son, daughter, or parent, of the employee’’ 24
and inserting ‘‘spouse or domestic partner, or a 25
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son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, 1
parent, parent-in-law, grandchild, sibling, uncle 2
or aunt, or nephew or niece of the employee, or 3
any other individual whose close association is 4
the equivalent of a family relationship with the 5
employee, as appropriate,’’. 6
(c) C
ERTIFICATION.—Section 6383 of title 5, United 7
States Code, is amended— 8
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘son, daugh-9
ter, spouse, or parent of the employee, as appro-10
priate’’ and inserting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law 11
or daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, par-12
ent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, 13
uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece of the employee, 14
or any other individual whose close association is the 15
equivalent of a family relationship with the em-16
ployee, as appropriate’’; and 17
(2) in subsection (b)(4)(A), by striking ‘‘son, 18
daughter, spouse, or parent, and an estimate of the 19
amount of time that such employee is needed to care 20
for such son, daughter, spouse, or parent’’ and in-21
serting ‘‘son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in- 22
law, spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in- 23
law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, 24
or nephew or niece of the employee, or any other in-25
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dividual whose close association is the equivalent of 1
a family relationship with the employee, as appro-2
priate, and an estimate of the amount of time that 3
such employee is needed to care for such son or 4
daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, spouse or 5
domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grand-6
parent, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, or nephew 7
or niece, or such other individual’’. 8
SEC. 4. ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL LEAVE UNDER THE 9
FMLA FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND 10
FAMILY WELLNESS. 11
(a) L
EAVEREQUIREMENT.—Section 102(a) of the 12
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 13
2612(a)), as amended by section 2(b), is further amend-14
ed— 15
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-16
graph (6); and 17
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-18
lowing new paragraph: 19
‘‘(5) E
NTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL LEAVE FOR 20
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND FAMILY 21
WELLNESS.— 22
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-23
graph (B) and section 103(g), an eligible em-24
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ployee shall be entitled to leave under this para-1
graph to— 2
‘‘(i) participate in or attend an activ-3
ity that is sponsored by a school or com-4
munity organization and relates to a pro-5
gram of the school or organization that is 6
attended by a son or daughter or a grand-7
child of the employee; or 8
‘‘(ii) meet routine family medical care 9
needs (including by attending medical and 10
dental appointments of the employee or a 11
son or daughter, spouse or domestic part-12
ner, or grandchild of the employee) or at-13
tend to the care needs of an elderly indi-14
vidual who is any other individual whose 15
close association is the equivalent of a fam-16
ily relationship with the employee (includ-17
ing by making visits to nursing homes or 18
group homes). 19
‘‘(B) L
IMITATIONS.— 20
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL.—An eligible em-21
ployee shall be entitled to— 22
‘‘(I) not to exceed 4 hours of 23
leave under this paragraph during any 24
30-day period; and 25
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‘‘(II) not to exceed 24 hours of 1
leave under this paragraph during any 2
12-month period described in para-3
graph (4). 4
‘‘(ii) C
OORDINATION RULE .—Leave 5
under this paragraph shall be in addition 6
to any leave provided under any other 7
paragraph of this subsection. 8
‘‘(C) D
EFINITIONS.—As used in this para-9
graph: 10
‘‘(i) C
OMMUNITY ORGANIZATION .— 11
The term ‘community organization’ means 12
a private nonprofit organization that is 13
representative of a community or a signifi-14
cant segment of a community and provides 15
activities for individuals described in sec-16
tion 101(12), such as a scouting or sports 17
organization. 18
‘‘(ii) S
CHOOL.—The term ‘school’ 19
means an elementary school or secondary 20
school (as such terms are defined in sec-21
tion 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-22
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 23
7801)), a Head Start program assisted 24
under the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 25
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et seq.), and a child care facility licensed 1
under State law.’’. 2
(b) S
CHEDULE.—Section 102(b)(1) of such Act (29 3
U.S.C. 2612(b)(1)) is amended by inserting after the third 4
sentence the following new sentence: ‘‘Subject to sub-5
section (e)(4) and section 103(g), leave under subsection 6
(a)(5) may be taken intermittently or on a reduced leave 7
schedule.’’. 8
(c) S
UBSTITUTION OF PAIDLEAVE.—Section 9
102(d)(2) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 2612(d)(2)) is amended 10
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 11
‘‘(C) P
ARENTAL INVOLVEMENT LEAVE AND 12
FAMILY WELLNESS LEAVE .— 13
‘‘(i) V
ACATION LEAVE ; PERSONAL 14
LEAVE; FAMILY LEAVE.—An eligible em-15
ployee may elect, or an employer may re-16
quire the employee, to substitute any of 17
the accrued paid vacation leave, personal 18
leave, or family leave of the employee for 19
any part of the period of leave under sub-20
section (a)(5). 21
‘‘(ii) M
EDICAL OR SICK LEAVE .—An 22
eligible employee may elect, or an employer 23
may require the employee, to substitute 24
any of the accrued paid medical or sick 25
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leave of the employee for any part of the 1
period of leave provided under clause (ii) of 2
subsection (a)(5)(A), except that nothing 3
in this title shall require an employer to 4
provide paid sick leave or paid medical 5
leave in any situation in which such em-6
ployer would not normally provide any 7
such paid leave. 8
‘‘(iii) P
ROHIBITION ON RESTRICTIONS 9
AND LIMITATIONS.—If the employee elects 10
or the employer requires the substitution 11
of accrued paid leave for leave under sub-12
section (a)(5), the employer shall not re-13
strict or limit the leave that may be sub-14
stituted or impose any additional terms 15
and conditions on the substitution of such 16
leave that are more stringent for the em-17
ployee than the terms and conditions set 18
forth in this Act.’’. 19
(d) N
OTICE.—Section 102(e) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 20
2612(e)), as amended by section 2(b), is further amended 21
by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 22
‘‘(4) N
OTICE RELATING TO PARENTAL IN -23
VOLVEMENT AND FAMILY WELLNESS LEAVE .—In 24
any case in which an employee requests leave under 25
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paragraph (5) of subsection (a), the employee 1
shall— 2
‘‘(A) provide the employer with not less 3
than 7 days’ notice, or (if such notice is imprac-4
ticable) such notice as is practicable, before the 5
date the leave is to begin, of the employee’s in-6
tention to take leave under such paragraph; and 7
‘‘(B) in the case of leave to be taken under 8
subsection (a)(5)(A)(ii), make a reasonable ef-9
fort to schedule the activity or care involved so 10
as not to disrupt unduly the operations of the 11
employer, subject to the approval of the health 12
care provider involved (if any).’’. 13
(e) C
ERTIFICATION.—Section 103 of such Act (29 14
U.S.C. 2613) is amended by adding at the end the fol-15
lowing new subsection: 16
‘‘(g) C
ERTIFICATIONRELATED TOPARENTALIN-17
VOLVEMENT AND FAMILYWELLNESSLEAVE.—An em-18
ployer may require that a request for leave under section 19
102(a)(5) be supported by a certification issued at such 20
time and in such manner as the Secretary may by regula-21
tion prescribe.’’. 22
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SEC. 5. ENTITLEMENT OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO LEAVE 1
FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND FAMILY 2
WELLNESS. 3
(a) L
EAVEREQUIREMENT.—Section 6382(a) of title 4
5, United States Code, as amended by section 3(b), is fur-5
ther amended by adding at the end the following new para-6
graph: 7
‘‘(5)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B) and section 8
6383(f), an employee shall be entitled to leave under this 9
paragraph to— 10
‘‘(i) participate in or attend an activity that is 11
sponsored by a school or community organization 12
and relates to a program of the school or organiza-13
tion that is attended by a son or daughter or a 14
grandchild of the employee; or 15
‘‘(ii) meet routine family medical care needs 16
(including by attending medical and dental appoint-17
ments of the employee or a son or daughter, spouse 18
or domestic partner, or grandchild of the employee) 19
or to attend to the care needs of an elderly indi-20
vidual who is any other individual whose close asso-21
ciation is the equivalent of a family relationship with 22
the employee (including by making visits to nursing 23
homes and group homes). 24
‘‘(B)(i) An employee is entitled to— 25
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‘‘(I) not to exceed 4 hours of leave under this 1
paragraph during any 30-day period; and 2
‘‘(II) not to exceed 24 hours of leave under this 3
paragraph during any 12-month period described in 4
paragraph (4). 5
‘‘(ii) Leave under this paragraph shall be in addition 6
to any leave provided under any other paragraph of this 7
subsection. 8
‘‘(C) For the purpose of this paragraph— 9
‘‘(i) the term ‘community organization’ means a 10
private nonprofit organization that is representative 11
of a community or a significant segment of a com-12
munity and provides activities for individuals de-13
scribed in section 6381(6), such as a scouting or 14
sports organization; and 15
‘‘(ii) the term ‘school’ means an elementary 16
school or secondary school (as such terms are de-17
fined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-18
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)), a 19
Head Start program assisted under the Head Start 20
Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.), and a child care facil-21
ity licensed under State law.’’. 22
(b) S
CHEDULE.—Section 6382(b)(1) of such title is 23
amended— 24
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(1) by inserting after the third sentence the fol-1
lowing new sentence: ‘‘Subject to subsection (e)(4) 2
and section 6383(f), leave under subsection (a)(5) 3
may be taken intermittently or on a reduced leave 4
schedule.’’; and 5
(2) in the last sentence, by striking ‘‘involved,’’ 6
and inserting ‘‘involved (or, in the case of leave 7
under subsection (a)(5), for purposes of the 30-day 8
or 12-month period involved),’’. 9
(c) S
UBSTITUTION OF PAIDLEAVE.—Section 10
6382(d) of such title is amended by adding at the end 11
the following: 12
‘‘(3) An employee may elect to substitute for any part 13
of the period of leave under subsection (a)(5), any of the 14
employee’s accrued or accumulated annual or sick leave. 15
If the employee elects the substitution of that accrued or 16
accumulated annual or sick leave for leave under sub-17
section (a)(5), the employing agency shall not restrict or 18
limit the leave that may be substituted or impose any addi-19
tional terms and conditions on the substitution of such 20
leave that are more stringent for the employee than the 21
terms and conditions set forth in this subchapter.’’. 22
(d) N
OTICE.—Section 6382(e) of such title, as 23
amended by section 3(b)(2), is further amended by adding 24
at the end the following new paragraph: 25
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‘‘(4) In any case in which an employee requests leave 1
under paragraph (5) of subsection (a), the employee 2
shall— 3
‘‘(A) provide the employing agency with not less 4
than 7 days’ notice, or (if such notice is impracti-5
cable) such notice as is practicable, before the date 6
the leave is to begin, of the employee’s intention to 7
take leave under such paragraph; and 8
‘‘(B) in the case of leave to be taken under sub-9
section (a)(5)(A)(ii), make a reasonable effort to 10
schedule the activity or care involved so as not to 11
disrupt unduly the operations of the employing agen-12
cy, subject to the approval of the health care pro-13
vider involved (if any).’’. 14
(e) C
ERTIFICATION.—Section 6383(f) of such title is 15
amended by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)(E) or (3) of’’ and 16
inserting ‘‘paragraph (1)(E), (3) or (5) of’’. 17
Æ
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