FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT

Bills and resolutions

Employment: allow leave for parental involvement in educational and extracurricular activities, routine medical needs, and assistance to elderly relatives (see H.R. 476), H284 [1FE]

———allow leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent with a serious health condition (see H.R. 475), H284 [1FE]

———allow leave to employees whose spouse, child, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation (see S. 798), S3652 [14AP] (see H.R. 1667), H2102 [14AP]

———include nurse practitioners and domestic partners within the scope of coverage, and extend the period of family or medical leave for spouses employed by the same employer (see H.R. 279), H137 [6JA]

Expand (see S. 282), S978 [3FE]

Medicare: provide for the use of qualified family caregivers in the provision of home health aide services and amend the Family and Medical Leave Act (see H.R. 175), H77 [4JA]

Organ donation: allow leave for individuals who provide living organ donations (see H.R. 1993), H2736 [28AP]

Letters

Military Families Leave Act: Candace A. Wheeler, National Military Family Association, E666 [15AP]

———Debra L. Ness, National Partnership for Women & Families, E666 [15AP]

———Lani Burnett, Reserve Enlisted Association, and Robert A. McIntosh, Reserve Officers Association, E666 [15AP]

———Michael P. Cline, Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the U.S., E666 [15AP]

Remarks in House

Anniversary, E145 [2FE]

Employment: allow leave for parental involvement in educational and extracurricular activities, routine medical needs, and assistance to elderly relatives (H.R. 476), E120 [1FE]

———allow leave to care for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent with a serious health condition (H.R. 475), E120 [1FE]

———allow leave to employees whose spouse, child, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation (H.R. 1667), E665 [15AP]

Remarks in Senate

Employment: allow leave to employees whose spouse, child, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation (S. 798), S3668 [14AP]

Expand (S. 282), S984 [3FE]

Summaries

Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (S. 282), S985 [3FE]

Texts of

S. 798, Military Families Leave Act, S3669 [14AP]