VAlue FAAmily Act

VAlue FAAmily Act

This bill provides employees of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Veterans Health Administration with the same family and medical leave benefits as other federal employees, beginning in FY2021.

The bill also specifies that TSA screeners are eligible to receive family and medical leave benefits beginning in FY2021.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5993 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5993

  To provide paid parental leave to certain employees of the Federal 
 Aviation Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, 
    and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2020

Mr. Balderson (for himself, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Rodney Davis of 
Illinois, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Kinzinger) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in 
addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Transportation and 
   Infrastructure, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide paid parental leave to certain employees of the Federal 
 Aviation Administration, the Transportation Security Administration, 
    and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``VAlue FAAmily Act''.

SEC. 2. PAID PARENTAL LEAVE FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE FAA, TSA, AND 
              VA.

    (a) FAA and TSA.--
            (1) Application of federal fml.--Section 40122(g)(2) of 
        title 49, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (I)(iii), by striking ``and'' 
                at the end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (J), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(K) subchapter V of chapter 63, relating to 
                family and medical leave.''.
            (2) Corrections for tsa screeners.--Section 7606 of the 
        National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``Section 111(d)(2)'' and inserting 
                ``(a) In General.--Section 111(d)(2)''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
not be effective with respect to any event for which leave may be taken 
under subchapter V of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, 
occurring before October 1, 2020.''.
    (b) Title 38 Employees.--Section 7425 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``Notwithstanding'' and 
        inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (c), and 
        notwithstanding''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the 
Administration shall provide to individuals appointed to any position 
described in section 7421(b) who are employed by the Administration 
family and medical leave in the same manner, to the maximum extent 
practicable, as family and medical leave is provided under subchapter V 
of chapter 63 of title 5 to employees, as defined in section 6381(1) of 
such title.''.
    (c) Application.--
            (1) Effective date.--The amendments made by subsections 
        (a)(1) and (b) shall not be effective with respect to any event 
        for which leave may be taken under subchapter V of chapter 63 
        of title 5, United States Code, occurring before October 1, 
        2020.
            (2) Service requirement for eligibility.--Any Federal 
        service by an individual provided leave by the amendments made 
        by subsections (a)(1) or (b) of this Act or by section 7606(a) 
        of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 
        (as amended by subsection (a)(2)), including any Federal 
        service occurring prior to the effective date of such 
        amendments, shall count for purposes of determining the period 
        of service requirement under section 6381(1)(B) of title 5, 
        United States Code.
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