[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2744 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2744

   To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the 
     eligibility requirements with respect to airline flight crews.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2007

Mr. Bishop of New York (for himself, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. George Miller of 
 California, Ms. Kilpatrick, Ms. Hooley, Mr. Baird, Mr. Kucinich, Mrs. 
 Maloney of New York, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Hare, Mr. Nadler, 
Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Scott of 
 Virginia, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Pastor, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
    Hirono, Ms. Sutton, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Berkley, Mr. 
 McNerney, Ms. Shea-Porter, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Payne, Mr. 
 Al Green of Texas, and Mr. Wynn) introduced the following bill; which 
 was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the 
     eligibility requirements with respect to airline flight crews.

    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 ``Airline Flight Crew Technical 
Corrections Act''.

SEC. 2. LEAVE REQUIREMENTS FOR AIRLINE FLIGHT CREWS.

    Section 101(2) of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 
U.S.C. 2611(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Airline flight crews.--
                            ``(i) Determination.--For purposes of 
                        determining whether an employee who is a flight 
                        attendant or flight crewmember (as such terms 
                        are defined in regulations of the Federal 
                        Aviation Administration) meets the hours of 
                        service requirement specified in subparagraph 
                        (A)(ii), the employee will be considered to be 
                        qualified if the employee has been paid for or 
                        has worked 60 percent of the employer's monthly 
                        hour or trip guarantee, or the equivalent 
                        annualized over the preceding 12-month period.
                            ``(ii) Definition.--As used in this 
                        subparagraph, the term `employer's monthly hour 
                        or trip guarantee' means the number of hours 
                        for which an employer has agreed to pay the 
                        employee described in clause (i) for any given 
                        month, regardless of the actual number of hours 
                        worked.''.
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