IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2744 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 21, 2008 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Airline Flight Crew 
Technical Corrections Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LEAVE REQUIREMENT FOR AIRLINE FLIGHT 
CREWS. 
(a) INCLUSION OF AIRLINE FLIGHT CREWS.—Sec-
tion 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 em-
ployee will be considered to be eligible if— 
‘‘(I) the employee has worked or 
been paid for 60 percent of the appli-
cable monthly guarantee, or the equiv-
alent annualized over the preceding 
12-month period; and 
‘‘(II) the employee has worked or 
been paid for a minimum of 504 
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hours during the preceding 12-month 
period. 
‘‘(ii) DEFINITION.—As used in this 
subparagraph, the term ‘applicable month-
ly guarantee’ means— 
‘‘(I) for employees described in 
clause (i) other than employees on re-
serve status, the minimum number of 
hours for which an employer has 
agreed to schedule such employees for 
any given month; and 
‘‘(II) for employees described in 
clause (i) who are on reserve status, 
the number of hours for which an em-
ployer has agreed to pay such employ-
ees on reserve status for any given 
month, 
as established in the collective bargaining 
agreement, or if none exists in the employ-
er’s policies. Each employer of an employee 
described in clause (i) shall maintain on 
file with the Secretary (in accordance with 
regulations the Secretary may prescribe) 
the applicable monthly guarantee with re-
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spect to each category of employee to 
which such guarantee applies.’’. 
(b) CALCULATION OF LEAVE FOR AIRLINE FLIGHT 
CREWS.—Section 102(a) of the Family and Medical Leave 
Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2612(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) CALCULATION
OF
LEAVE
FOR
AIRLINE 
FLIGHT
CREWS.—The Secretary may provide, by 
regulation, a method for calculating the leave de-
scribed in paragraph (1) with respect to employees 
described in section 101(2)(D).’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 20, 2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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