HR 1439 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act

Introduced Mar 18, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Rosa L. DeLauro D-CT

Latest action · Mar 19, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

Progress

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IntroducedMar 18, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act

Establishes the Office of Paid Family and Medical Leave within the Social Security Administration (SSA), to be headed by the Deputy SSA Commissioner.

Entitles every individual to a family and medical leave insurance (FMLI) benefit payment for each month beginning on the first day of the first month in which the individual meets the criteria specified below and ending 365 days later (benefit period), not to exceed 60 qualified caregiving days per period. Qualifies for such a benefit payment any individual who:

is insured for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act at the time his or her application is filed;
has earned income from employment during the 12 months before filing it;
has filed an application for a FMLI benefit in accordance with this Act; and
was engaged in qualified caregiving (any activity, except regular employment, for a reason entitled to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993), or anticipates being so engaged, during the 90-day period before the application is filed or within 30 days after.

Prescribes a formula for determination of an individual's monthly FMLI benefit payment, as well as for the maximum and the minimum monthly benefit amounts.

Requires a FMLI benefit payment to be coordinated with any periodic benefits received from temporary disability insurance or family leave insurance programs under any state law or plan, local government, or an instrumentality of two or more states.

Prescribes criteria that makes an individual ineligible for a FMLI benefit payment.

Specifies prohibited acts by an employer, and penalties for violations.

Establishes the Federal Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund in the Treasury. Requires FMLI benefit payments to be made only from this Fund.

Prohibits the use of amounts from the Social Security Trust Fund or appropriated to the SSA to administer Social Security programs for FMLI benefits or administration.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on every individual and employer, all self-employment income, and every railroad employee, employee representative, or railroad employer to finance the Federal Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund in the Treasury for FMLI benefits.

Cosponsors 137

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 18, 2015 to Nov 14, 2016; 82 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-IN	André Carson	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-GA	David Scott	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MI	Debbie Dingell	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-TX	Gene Green	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Janice Hahn	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	John Garamendi	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Joseph Crowley	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Lois Frankel	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Mar 18, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		Apr 13, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Apr 13, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Apr 13, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Apr 14, 2015
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Apr 14, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Apr 30, 2015
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		May 14, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		May 18, 2015
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Jun 1, 2015
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jun 3, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jun 3, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jun 9, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jun 23, 2015
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Jun 24, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jul 10, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Jul 13, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan		Jul 20, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jul 21, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Jul 28, 2015
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Sep 8, 2015
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Sep 10, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Sep 10, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 10, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Sep 24, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Oct 22, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Oct 22, 2015
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Oct 22, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Oct 27, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Oct 27, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		Oct 29, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Nov 18, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Dec 10, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating		Feb 8, 2016
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Feb 25, 2016
D-WA	Adam Smith		Feb 29, 2016
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Mar 22, 2016
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Apr 11, 2016
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Apr 11, 2016
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Apr 14, 2016
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Apr 19, 2016
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Apr 26, 2016
D-WI	Ron Kind		Jun 9, 2016
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jun 14, 2016
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Jun 14, 2016
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jun 22, 2016
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jun 28, 2016
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Jul 1, 2016
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jul 1, 2016
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Jul 7, 2016
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Jul 7, 2016
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jul 7, 2016
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Sep 9, 2016
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Sep 9, 2016
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Nov 14, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Mar 18, 2015
	Social Security Subcommittee	Referred Mar 19, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 19, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Mar 18, 2015Introduced in House
Mar 18, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution and Article I. Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 46, March 18, 2015, page H1770.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
—	MOVING AMERICA'S FAMILIES FORWARD: SETTING PRIORITIES FOR REDUCING POVERTY AND EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY113 pages	Ways and Means Committee	May 24, 2016

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 786	Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act	Identical bill	Mar 18, 2015
HR 947	FAMILY Act	Reintroduced Bill	Feb 22, 2017

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 18, 2015Introduced in House

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