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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. 
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 
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 Representa-
tives 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 
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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 employ-
ees 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 em-
ployee 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 
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least 1,250 hours of service with such employer dur-
ing 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 sec-
tion 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 ap-
propriated 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 ad-
dress any benefits to public health and psychological well- 
being as a result of such leave. Not later than 3 years 
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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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