Healthy Families Act
Latest action · Jun 15, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 15, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 15, 2004 to Sep 9, 2004, with 6 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jun 15, 2004 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jun 15, 2004 |
| D-NJ | Jon S. Corzine | Original | Jun 15, 2004 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jun 15, 2004 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Jun 15, 2004 |
| D-WI | Russell D. Feingold | Original | Jun 15, 2004 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Jul 13, 2004 | |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Sep 9, 2004 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 15, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Jun 15, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4575 | Healthy Families Act | Identical bill | Jul 15, 2004 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Administrative remedies
- Business records
- Caregivers
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- 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 and Employment
- 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
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.