Congresswoman Bice is leading a bipartisan effort in Congress to encourage employers to expand access to paid family leave.
Will continue leading bipartisan efforts to expand access to paid family leave.
Occurrences
We also strengthened support for working families through paid leave. This legislation permanently extends the paid family leave tax credit for employers and expands access nationwide.
She’s been a champion for expanding paid family leave, strengthening resources for our nation’s veterans, and improving the quality of life for Oklahomans.
Evidence
"We also strengthened support for working families through paid leave. This legislation permanently extends the paid family leave tax credit for employers and expands access nationwide."
"Mrs. BICE ... introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce..." Full title: "To direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program to award grants to States to carry out a paid family leave program, to establish the Interstate Paid Leave Action Network, and for other purposes."
GovInfo enrolled bill for H.R. 1 includes Sec. 70304, "Extension and enhancement of paid family and medical leave credit," and applies the amendments to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2025.
Bice wrote that the legislation would permanently extend the paid family leave tax credit for employers and expand access nationwide.
GovInfo shows Bice introduced H.R. 3089 on April 30, 2025 and the last action on the bill was referral to committee.
Assessments
Bice continued to press the issue during the term by introducing H.R. 3089 and publicly advocating for paid leave expansion. Congress also enacted H.R. 1, which extended and enhanced the paid family and medical leave tax credit, so the promised direction of policy change was achieved in the same term.
Bice did continue bipartisan paid-family-leave work in office, including introducing the bipartisan More Paid Leave for More Americans Act on April 30, 2025. That shows concrete follow-through on the promise to keep leading efforts. But the specific bipartisan bill did not become law in the record provided. A separate 2025 federal measure expanded the Section 45S paid family and medical leave employer tax credit for years after December 31, 2025, which is aligned with expanding access, yet the evidence here does not clearly show Bice wrote or materially drove that enacted provision strongly enough to credit her with full delivery. Under the federal credit rules, that supports partial achievement during the same term rather than full delivery.
Bice's promise was framed as continuing bipartisan leadership to expand paid family leave access, not guaranteeing creation of a universal federal leave program. During the same House term she co-led or introduced bipartisan paid leave measures, including H.R. 3089 and legislation to extend and enhance the employer paid family and medical leave tax credit. The employer tax credit was later made permanent and expanded for tax years beginning in 2026, aligning with the access-expansion goal and reflecting a concrete federal policy outcome tied to the type of bipartisan effort she led. H.R. 3089 itself had not been enacted in the available record, but the broader promise to continue leading bipartisan efforts and secure expansion through tax-credit policy is sufficiently fulfilled.