Legislative Activity
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The "Caring for All Families Act" expands family and medical leave to include care for domestic partners, in-laws, adult children, and other related individuals, and provides additional leave for parental involvement and family wellness activities.
Jahana Hayes
Representative
CT
Jahana Hayes
Representative
CT
The "Caring for All Families Act" expands the definition of family members under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to include domestic partners, in-laws, adult children, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings, and other individuals with close family-like relationships, allowing employees to take leave to care for them. It also allows employees to take additional leave for parental involvement in children's or grandchildren's education and extracurricular activities, and to meet family wellness needs, with certain limitations on the amount of leave that can be taken for these purposes. These provisions apply to both private-sector and federal employees.
This bill increases dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and modifies requirements for survivors of totally disabled veterans, providing proportional compensation based on the length of the veteran's disability before death.
Jahana Hayes
Representative
CT
Jahana Hayes
Representative
CT
The "Caring for Survivors Act of 2025" increases dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses of veterans. Additionally, it modifies the requirements for survivor benefits for veterans who were totally disabled at the time of death, reducing the required period of disability from 10 to 5 years, and introduces proportional compensation for disability periods less than 10 years.
The Department of Education Protection Act prohibits the Department of Education from using appropriated funds to implement reorganization activities that would decentralize, reduce staffing, or change the responsibilities, structure, authority, or functionality of the Department as it was organized on January 1, 2025.
Jahana Hayes
Representative
CT
Jahana Hayes
Representative
CT
The "Department of Education Protection Act" prevents the Department of Education from using already allocated funds to reorganize in ways that would decentralize, reduce staff, or alter the Department's responsibilities, structure, authority, or functions as they existed on January 1, 2025. This act ensures that the Department of Education continues to focus on boosting student success and equal access through its established offices and institutes.