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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2096 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2096

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to require that employers provide 
         a minimum of 1 week of paid annual leave to employees.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2013

 Mr. Grayson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL

 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to require that employers provide 
         a minimum of 1 week of paid annual leave to employees.

    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 ``Paid Vacation Act''.

SEC. 2. ENTITLEMENT TO VACATION.

    Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. 207) is 
amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c)(1) Beginning on the date of enactment of the Paid Vacation 
Act, an eligible employee of an employer that employs 100 or more 
employees at any time during a calendar year shall be entitled to a 
total of 1 workweek of paid vacation during each 12-month period.
    ``(2) Beginning on the date that is 3 years after the date of 
enactment of the Paid Vacation Act, an eligible employee of an employer 
that employs 50 or more employees at any time during a calendar year 
shall be entitled to a total of 1 workweek of paid vacation during each 
12-month period, and an eligible employee of an employer that employs 
100 or more employees shall be entitled to a total of 2 workweeks of 
paid vacation during each 12-month period, beginning on that eligible 
employee's first anniversary of employment.
    ``(3) An eligible employee shall provide the employer with not less 
than 30 days' notice, before the date the paid vacation under paragraph 
(1) or (2) is to begin, of the employee's intention to take paid 
vacation under such paragraph, and identify the date such paid vacation 
shall begin.
    ``(4) For purposes of this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `eligible employee' means an employee who 
        has been employed for at least 12 months by the employer with 
        respect to whom leave is requested under paragraph (1) or (2) 
        and for at least 1,250 hours of service with such employer 
        during such 12-month period; and
            ``(B) the term 1 workweek of `paid vacation' means vacation 
        time, in addition to and apart from sick leave and any leave 
        otherwise required by law, to be taken in a continuous series 
        or block of work days comprising 7 calendar days that cannot be 
        rolled over, but must be used within the 12-month period.
    ``(5) The exemptions to this section provided in section 13 shall 
not apply to this subsection.''.

SEC. 3. PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN BY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

    The Secretary of Labor is authorized to conduct a public awareness 
campaign, through the Internet and other media, to inform the public of 
the entitlement to leave afforded by this Act. There is authorized to 
be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the public awareness 
campaign.

SEC. 4. STUDY ON PRODUCTIVITY.

    The Secretary of Labor shall conduct a study on workplace 
productivity and the effect on productivity of the leave requirement in 
this Act. The study shall also address any benefits to public health 
and psychological well-being as a result of such leave. Not later than 
3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
transmit to Congress a report containing the findings of the study, and 
shall publish such findings on the website of the Department of Labor.
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