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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 33
Expressing the sense of the Congress that any health insurance reform bill
that is enacted should require that family and temporary medical leave
be incorporated as a basic or elective option for plan participants under
certain circumstances.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 3, 1993
Ms. KAPTUR submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred
jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce,
Education and Labor, and Post Office and Civil Service
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Congress that any health insur-
ance reform bill that is enacted should require that fam-
ily and temporary medical leave be incorporated as a
basic or elective option for plan participants under cer-
tain circumstances.
Whereas the number of single-parent and 2-parent house-
holds in which the single parent or both parents work is
increasing significantly;
Whereas it is important for the development of children and
the family unit that fathers and mothers be able to par-
ticipate in early childrearing and the care of family mem-
bers who have serious health conditions;
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Whereas the lack of employment policies to accommodate
working parents can force individuals to choose between
job security and parenting;
Whereas there is inadequate job security for employees who
have serious health conditions that prevent them from
working for temporary periods;
Whereas, due to the nature of the roles of men and women
in the society of the United States, the primary respon-
sibility for family caretaking often falls on women, and
such responsibility affects the working lives of women
more than it affects the working lives of men;
Whereas more than 70 percent of women with school-aged
children and 56 percent of women with preschool-aged
children work outside the home;
Whereas employment standards that apply only to 1 gender
have serious potential for encouraging employers to dis-
criminate against employees and applicants for employ-
ment who are of the gender;
Whereas numerous bills to reform the health insurance sys-
tem in the United States have been introduced in the
Senate and the House of Representatives;
Whereas several of the bills, if they were enacted, would sig-
nificantly alter the existing health insurance system; and
Whereas granting employees family and temporary medical
leave as part of a reform of the health insurance system
promises to improve both the prevention and cure of seri-
ous health conditions by averting undue stress on the
part of employees and permitting them personally to at-
tend to family members who have such conditions: Now,
therefore, be it
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that any
bill to address the ongoing and unmet health insurance
needs of the people of the United States that is enacted
should require that paid or unpaid leave, as detailed in
the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, be incor-
porated as a basic or elective option for plan participants
for 1 or more of the following:
(1) Because of the birth of a son or daughter
of an employee and in order to care for the son or
daughter.
(2) Because of the placement of a son or
daughter with an employee for adoption or foster
care.
(3) In order to care for the spouse, or a son,
daughter, or parent, of an employee, if the spouse,
son, daughter, or parent has a serious health condi-
tion.
(4) Because of a serious health condition that
makes an employee unable to perform the functions
of the position of the employee.
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