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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jun 9, 2009
Living Organ Donor Job Security Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to entitle employees covered by FMLA to leave to provide a living organ donation, including for time spent for: (1) tests to determine medical suitability of the employee for donation; (2) physical, psychological, and social evaluations of the donor; (3) pretransplant outpatient services; (4) postoperative inpatient and outpatient transplantation services; (5) travel in connection with such tests, evaluations, and services; and (6) recuperation.
Amends federal civil service law to entitle civilian federal employees the same leave allowance.
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Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15] · D–TX
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
Referred to House Administration
Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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 committee concerned.
Referred to House Education and Labor
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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