Sec. 3. Federal employees

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Section 6381 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph

(11)by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in paragraph (12), by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and by adding at the end the following: the term domestic partner means— the person recognized as the domestic partner of the employee under any domestic partner registry or civil union laws of the State or political subdivision of a State where the employee resides, or who is lawfully married to the employee under the laws of the State where the employee resides; or in the case of an unmarried employee who lives in a State where a person cannot marry a person of the same sex under the laws of the State, an unmarried adult person of the same sex as the employee who is in a committed, personal relationship with the employee, is not a domestic partner to any other person, and who is designated to the employing agency by such employee as that employee’s domestic partner; the term parent-in-law means a parent of the spouse or domestic partner of an employee; the term grandchild means the son or daughter of an employee’s son or daughter; the term grandparent means a parent of a parent of an employee; the term sibling means any person who is a son or daughter of an employee’s parent; and the terms son-in-law and daughter-in-law , used with respect to an employee, means any person who is a spouse or domestic partner of a son or daughter of the employee. . Section 6381(6) of such title is amended— by inserting a child of an individual’s domestic partner, after a legal ward, ; and by striking who is— and all that follows and inserting and includes an adult child . Section 6382 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)(1)(C), by striking spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent of the employee, if such spouse, son, daughter, or parent and inserting spouse or domestic partner, or a son, daughter, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling, of the employee if such spouse, domestic partner, son, daughter, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling ; in subsection (a)(1)(E), by striking spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent and inserting spouse or domestic partner, or a son, daughter, parent, parent-in-law, grandchild, or sibling ; in subsection (a)(3), by striking spouse, son, daughter, parent, and inserting spouse or domestic partner, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, sibling, ; in subsection (e)(2)(A), by striking spouse, parent, and inserting spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, ; and in subsection (e)(3), by striking spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent, and inserting spouse or domestic partner, or a son, daughter, parent, parent-in-law, grandchild, or sibling, . Section 6383 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a), by striking spouse, or parent and inserting spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling ; and in subsection (b)(4)(A), by striking spouse, or parent, and an estimate of the amount of time that such employee is needed to care for such son, daughter, spouse, or parent and inserting spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling and an estimate of the amount of time that such employee is needed to care for such son, daughter, spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling .