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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,[...]

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  • 06/27/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
  • 06/27/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
  • 03/15/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and 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.
  • 03/15/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor
  • 03/15/2007 - Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform

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Bill Text
File name Last Updated
H.R.1542 Introduced in House08/31/2007