The purpose of the program under this bill is to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is talking leave from employment to: 1. Bonding with new child (birth, adoption, foster, kinship care); 2. Care for family member with serious health condition; 3. Care for own serious health condition; 4. Care for service individual who is next of kin; 5. Because the covered individual has a qualifying exigency arising out of deployment of service member who is a family member. The maximum length of paid leave is 12 weeks, with an additional 12 weeks if the covered individual is eligible for leave both to bond with a new child (birth, adoption, foster, kinship care) AND is eligible for leave to care for own serious health condition in the same year. Either event can come first.
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