Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act

This bill would expand paid leave for federal workers. Paid leave that now covers the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child would also cover other reasons allowed under the Family and Medical Leave Act, such as an employee's own serious health condition or caring for a family member. The change would apply to most executive branch, congressional, Executive Office of the President, FAA and TSA, GAO, and Library of Congress employees. It would also apply to the Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission and to Veterans Affairs health workers. It would require the District of Columbia courts and Public Defender Service to set up paid family and medical leave programs, and it would let adoption-related leave begin before a child is placed.

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Sponsors

• Brian Schatz Democrat sponsor
• 8 cosponsors