Title: Pandemic Leave Extension Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Pandemic Leave Extension Act
This bill extends until the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency the availability of emergency paid sick leave and emergency family and medical leave.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3040 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3040

 To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Emergency Paid Sick 
        Leave Act to extend paid leave, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2021

Mr. Foster (for himself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Cooper, Ms. Lee of California, 
 Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Soto, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Evans, and Ms. 
    Ross) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on 
  Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Emergency Paid Sick 
        Leave Act to extend paid leave, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Pandemic Leave Extension Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PAID LEAVE.

    (a) Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act.--The Emergency Paid Sick Leave 
Act (29 U.S.C. 2601 note) is amended--
            (1) in section 5102(b)(2), by inserting ``in each calendar 
        year'' after ``paid sick time'';
            (2) in section 5103(b),
                    (A) by striking ``Not later than'' and inserting 
                ``(1) in general.--Not later than''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(2) Updates.--The notice under paragraph (1) shall be 
        updated and made publicly available not later than 7 days after 
        the date of the enactment of the Pandemic Leave Extension 
        Act.'';
            (3) in section 5108, by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``or 15 days after the date of the enactment of the 
        Pandemic Leave Extension Act.''; and
            (4) in section 5109, by striking ``December 31, 2020'' and 
        inserting ``the date that is the end of the public health 
        emergency related to the coronavirus declared by the Secretary 
        of Health and Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the 
        Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d)''.
    (b) Family and Medical Leave Act.--
            (1) Amendment.--The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 
        (29 U.S.C. 2611 et seq.) is amended in section 102(a)(1)(F) (29 
        U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(F)), by striking ``December 31, 2020'' and 
        inserting ``the date that is the end of the public health 
        emergency related to the coronavirus declared by the Secretary 
        of Health and Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the 
        Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d)''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendment under paragraph (1) 
        shall take effect not later than 15 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
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