Pass and promote paid family and gender-neutral leave.

Pass and promote paid family and gender-neutral leave.

Calls for legislation and advocacy to expand paid family leave and remove gendered language from leave policy.

Representative Lori Trahan Congresswoman Lori Trahan was born and raised in a working-class family in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the mom of two young girls and proudly represents Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District.
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Trahan's official House issues page lists the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act under 'Additional Supported Legislation' on her Jobs and the Economy page.

Official member site shows Trahan promoted or supported paid leave legislation after taking office.

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Jobs and the Economy
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Congress.gov's CRS summary states that H.R.1534 would provide paid family leave for certain federal employees in FMLA-covered instances, replacing leave that was otherwise unpaid, and would require 12 weeks of paid administrative leave for family care.

The bill Trahan listed as supported matched part of the promise, but it covered federal employees rather than all workers.

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H.R.1534 - Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, 116th Congress
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Public Law 116-92 includes Subtitle A, 'Federal Employee Paid Leave Act,' and creates '12 administrative workweeks of paid parental leave' in connection with birth or placement, effective for births or placements occurring on or after October 1, 2020.

A paid parental leave law was enacted during Trahan's first House term, but only for federal and covered congressional-related employees and for birth or placement, not a universal paid family and medical leave program.

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Public Law 116-92, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
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The FAMILY Act text says it would provide paid family and medical leave benefits, create an Office of Paid Family and Medical Leave, and entitle eligible individuals to family and medical leave insurance benefit payments for qualifying caregiving reasons.

This later bill targeted the broader paid family and medical leave promise, with inclusive family definitions, but was only introduced and not enacted.

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Text - H.R.3481 - FAMILY Act, 118th Congress
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Lori Trahan [D-MA-3] as a cosponsor of H.R.3481, the FAMILY Act, added on April 15, 2024. The page shows the bill's status as Introduced and latest action as referral to the Subcommittee on Health on December 17, 2024.

Trahan concretely supported a broad paid family and medical leave bill, but it did not pass in the 118th Congress.

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Cosponsors - H.R.3481 - FAMILY Act, 118th Congress
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The Department of Labor states that the FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying family and medical reasons, with up to 12 workweeks for birth, adoption or foster care placement, family serious health conditions, an employee's serious health condition, and certain military-related reasons.

As of the latest DOL page before the assessment date, the baseline federal family and medical leave guarantee for covered private and public employees remains unpaid, supporting that the broader paid family leave promise was not fully delivered.

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Family and Medical Leave Act | U.S. Department of Labor
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