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H.R.564 / 117th Congress

Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jan 28, 2021

Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act

This bill provides paid family and medical leave to federal employees.

Currently, federal employees are entitled to 12 weeks of administrative leave for one or more of the following reasons: (1) the birth of a child, (2) the adoption or foster care of a child, (3) the care of an immediate family member with a serious health condition, (4) inability to work due to a serious health condition, and (5) exigencies relating to an immediate family member's active duty service in the Armed Forces. However, of these reasons, employees are entitled to paid administrative leave only in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care of a child (i.e., parental leave).

The bill provides 12 weeks of paid administrative leave for any of these reasons, and specifies that this leave is in addition to any annual or sick leave to which employees are entitled.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12] · D–NY

Committees

  • Oversight and Government Reform Committee
  • Veterans' Affairs Committee
  • Committee on House Administration
37 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Actions

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  1. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

  2. Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 16.

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

  4. Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, 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.

  5. Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, 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.

  6. Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, 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.

  7. Introduced in House

  8. Introduced in House

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