[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2059 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2059

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2007

  Mrs. Clinton (for herself and Mr. Kennedy) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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 meets the hours 
                        of service requirement specified in 
                        subparagraph (A)(ii), the employee will be 
                        considered to have met the requirement if the 
                        employee has been paid for at least 60 percent 
                        or has worked at least 60 percent of the 
                        employer's monthly hour or trip guarantee, or 
                        the equivalent, annualized over the previous 
                        12-month period.
                            ``(ii) Definitions.--In this subparagraph:
                                    ``(I) Employer's monthly hour or 
                                trip guarantee.--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.
                                    ``(II) Flight attendant.--The term 
                                `flight attendant' means a flight 
                                attendant within the meaning of section 
                                121.391 of title 14, Code of Federal 
                                Regulations (or any corresponding 
                                similar regulation or ruling).
                                    ``(III) Flight crewmember.--The 
                                term `flight crewmember' has the 
                                meaning given the term `flightcrew 
                                member' in section 1.1 of such title 14 
                                (or any corresponding similar 
                                regulation or ruling).''.
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