[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 33 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 33

 Expressing the sense of the Congress that any health insurance reform 
 bill that is enacted should require that family and temporary medical 
     leave be incorporated as a basic or elective option for plan 
               participants under certain circumstances.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 3, 1993

  Ms. Kaptur submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
   referred jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and 
    Commerce, Education and Labor, and Post Office and Civil Service

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Congress that any health insurance reform 
 bill that is enacted should require that family and temporary medical 
     leave be incorporated as a basic or elective option for plan 
               participants under certain circumstances.

Whereas the number of single-parent and 2-parent households in which the single 
        parent or both parents work is increasing significantly;
Whereas it is important for the development of children and the family unit that 
        fathers and mothers be able to participate in early childrearing and the 
        care of family members who have serious health conditions;
Whereas the lack of employment policies to accommodate working parents can force 
        individuals to choose between job security and parenting;
Whereas there is inadequate job security for employees who have serious health 
        conditions that prevent them from working for temporary periods;
Whereas, due to the nature of the roles of men and women in the society of the 
        United States, the primary responsibility for family caretaking often 
        falls on women, and such responsibility affects the working lives of 
        women more than it affects the working lives of men;
Whereas more than 70 percent of women with school-aged children and 56 percent 
        of women with preschool-aged children work outside the home;
Whereas employment standards that apply only to 1 gender have serious potential 
        for encouraging employers to discriminate against employees and 
        applicants for employment who are of the gender;
Whereas numerous bills to reform the health insurance system in the United 
        States have been introduced in the Senate and the House of 
        Representatives;
Whereas several of the bills, if they were enacted, would significantly alter 
        the existing health insurance system; and
Whereas granting employees family and temporary medical leave as part of a 
        reform of the health insurance system promises to improve both the 
        prevention and cure of serious health conditions by averting undue 
        stress on the part of employees and permitting them personally to attend 
        to family members who have such conditions: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that any bill to address the 
ongoing and unmet health insurance needs of the people of the United 
States that is enacted should require that paid or unpaid leave, as 
detailed in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, be incorporated 
as a basic or elective option for plan participants for 1 or more of 
the following:
            (1) Because of the birth of a son or daughter of an 
        employee and in order to care for the son or daughter.
            (2) Because of the placement of a son or daughter with an 
        employee for adoption or foster care.
            (3) In order to care for the spouse, or a son, daughter, or 
        parent, of an employee, if the spouse, son, daughter, or parent 
        has a serious health condition.
            (4) Because of a serious health condition that makes an 
        employee unable to perform the functions of the position of the 
        employee.

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