Healthy Families Act

Bill: 108-hr-4575
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Labor
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
General Accounting Office
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Informers
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Labor productivity
Labor statistics
Law
Leave of absence
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Limitation of actions
Married people
Medical records
Medical tests
Parents
Part-time employment
Personnel records
Preventive medicine
Right of privacy
Sick leave
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
State employees
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers with at least 15 or more employees to provide a minimum paid sick leave of: (1) seven days annually for those who work at least 30 hours per week; and (2) a prorated annual amount for those who work less than 30 but at least 20 hours a week, or less than 1,500 but at least 1,000 hours per year. 
 
Allows employees to use such leave to meet their own medical needs or to care for the medical needs of certain family members.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to exercise certain investigative and enforcement authority with respect to this Act's provisions regarding employees covered by title I of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 or the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Provides that, for employees under their jurisdiction, such authority shall be exercised by the Librarian of Congress, the Comptroller General, the Board of Directors of the congressional Office of Compliance, or the Merit Systems Protection Board.
 
Declares that the requirements under this Act are minimum requirements, and are not to be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining more generous leave policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government 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.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government 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.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government 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.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government 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.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House