Healthy Families Act

A bill to provide for paid sick leave to ensure that Americans can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.

3/15/2007--Introduced.
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to provide a minimum paid sick leave and employment benefits 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 for 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.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
• and 24 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Daniel Akaka [D, HI]
  • Sen. Joseph Biden [D, DE]
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
  • Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
  • Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI]
  • Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI]
  • Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT]
  • Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
  • Barack Obama
  • Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
  • Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
  • Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.910

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March 15, 2007

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• Mar 15, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3220)
• Introduced on Mar 15, 2007.
• Mar 15, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3220)
• Mar 15, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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• H.R.1542

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January 07, 2009 Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Need Not Cut Workers' Pay

Edward Kennedy (D–MA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sponsored the Healthy Families Act (HFA, S. 910). President-elect Barack Obama, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and Sen. ...

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December 26, 2008 NFIB.com - NFIB/Alabama Legislative Links -- April 20, 2007

Ted Kennedy, sponsor of S. 910, held a hearing on his paid sick leave bill earlier this year, but there has been no action on the House companion bill, H.R. 1542, the so-called "Healthy Families Act" by Rep. DeLauro. ...

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