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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 857 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to permit leave to care for a same-sex spouse, domestic partner, pa... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Federal employees

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Section 6381(6) of title 5, United States Code, 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 6381 of such title is further amended— in paragraph (11)(B), 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 , used with respect to an employee, means— the person recognized as the domestic partner of the employee under any domestic partner registry or civil union law of the State or political subdivision of a State where the employee resides, or the person who is lawfully married to the employee under the law of the State where the employee resides and who is the same sex as the employee; 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, a single, unmarried adult person of the same sex as the employee who is in a committed, personal (as defined in regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management) relationship with the employee, who is not a domestic partner to any other person, and who is designated to the employer by such employee as that employee’s domestic partner; the term grandchild , used with respect to an employee, means any person who is a son or daughter of a son or daughter of the employee; the term grandparent , used with respect to an employee, means a parent of a parent of the employee; the term parent-in-law , used with respect to an employee, means a parent of the spouse or domestic partner of the employee; the term sibling , used with respect to an employee, means any person who is a son or daughter of the employee’s parent; and the term son-in-law or 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 6382 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)(1)— in subparagraph (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, or sibling, of the employee, if such spouse, domestic partner, son, daughter, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, or sibling ; and in subparagraph (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, parent, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, grandparent, sibling, ; and in subsection (e)— in paragraph (2)(A), by striking spouse, parent and inserting spouse, domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, sibling ; and in paragraph (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, domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, 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, domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, or sibling and an estimate of the amount of time that such employee is needed to care for such son, daughter, spouse, domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, or sibling .
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