[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1934 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1934

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that, of the total 
  amount of family leave available to a Federal employee based on the 
  birth of a child or the placement of a child with the employee for 
adoption or foster care, at least one-half of that time shall be leave 
                               with pay.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2003

 Mrs. Maloney (for herself, Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia, Mr. Hoyer, Ms. 
Norton, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Owens, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Engel, 
 Mr. Kildee, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Filner, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Ms. Lee, 
   Mrs. Capps, Ms. McCarthy of Missouri, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Dingell, Ms. 
   Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Roybal-
  Allard, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Waxman, and Mr. McNulty) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that, of the total 
  amount of family leave available to a Federal employee based on the 
  birth of a child or the placement of a child with the employee for 
adoption or foster care, at least one-half of that time shall be leave 
                               with pay.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Employees Paid Parental 
Leave Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. PAID LEAVE.

    (a) In General.--Section 6382 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f)(1) Of the 12 weeks of leave available to an employee under 
subsection (a)(1)(A) or (B) during any 12-month period based on a birth 
or placement, up to one-half of that time (as the employee may 
designate in conformance with applicable requirements under paragraph 
(3)) shall be with pay.
    ``(2) Paid leave under this subsection shall be in addition to any 
annual or sick leave which the employee may otherwise elect to use 
under subsection (d) as part of the same 12-week period.
    ``(3) The Office shall prescribe any regulations necessary to carry 
out this subsection, including the manner in which an employee may 
designate any day or other period that such employee wishes to have 
treated as a period of paid leave under this subsection.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 6382 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``(d),'' and inserting 
        ``(d) or (f),''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by inserting ``any unpaid'' after 
        ``substitute for''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall not be effective with respect 
to any birth or placement occurring before the end of the 6-month 
period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.
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