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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

                                             AN ACT

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                   IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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To amend the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to

      provide paid leave for a District government employee when the employee suffers the

      death of the employees minor child or a stillbirth.

       BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

act may be cited as the District Government Parental Bereavement Leave Amendment Act of

2022.

        Sec. 2. Section 1203 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit

Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code  1-

612.03), is amended by adding a new subsection (n-1) to read as follows:

        (n-1)(1) In addition to the leave authorized by subsection (n) of this section, an

employee shall be entitled to 10 days of bereavement leave without loss of pay, leave, or service

credit when the employee suffers a stillbirth or the employee suffers the death of the employees

child under the age of 21 years.

                (2) Leave authorized by paragraph (1) of this subsection must be exercised

within 60 days after the death of the employees child or after the employee suffers a stillbirth.

                (3) Leave authorized by paragraph (1) of this subsection shall not count toward

the unpaid medical and family leave entitlements in the District of Columbia Family and Medical

Leave Act of 1990, effective October 3, 1990 (D.C. Law 8-181; D.C. Official Code  32-501 et

seq.), and shall be in addition to paid medical or family leave otherwise available to the

employee under this title.

                (4) For the purposes of this subsection, the term:

                        (A) Child means:

                                (i) The biological, adoptive, or stepchild of the employee or the

employees spouse; or

                                (ii) A person for whom the employee stands in loco parentis.

                        (B) Stillbirth means the death of a fetus at 20 weeks gestation or later

for the following employees:

                                (i) An employee who was pregnant with the fetus;

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                                (ii) An employee who is the spouse or domestic partner of the

individual who was pregnant with the fetus; or

                                (iii) An employee who intended to assume parental

responsibilities for the fetus had the fetus been born alive..

       Sec. 3. Fiscal impact statement.

       The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement in the committee report as the fiscal

impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975,

approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code  1-301.47a).

       Sec. 4. Effective date.

       This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by

Mayor, action by the Council to override veto), a 30-day period of congressional review as

provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December

24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code  1206.02(c)(1)), and publication in the District of

Columbia Register.

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               Chairman

               Council of the District of Columbia

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Mayor

District of Columbia

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