Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act
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Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act
This bill provides paid family and medical leave to federal employees.
Currently, federal employees are entitled to 12 weeks of administrative leave for one or more of the following reasons: (1) the birth of a child, (2) the adoption or foster care of a child, (3) the care of an immediate family member with a serious health condition, (4) inability to work due to a serious health condition, and (5) exigencies relating to an immediate family member's active duty service in the Armed Forces. However, of these reasons, employees are entitled to paid administrative leave only in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care of a child (i.e., parental leave).
The bill provides 12 weeks of paid administrative leave for any of these reasons, and specifies that this leave is in addition to any annual or sick leave to which employees are entitled.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 274: Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-274/
"S. 274: Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-274/.
S. 274, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-274/.
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