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S 8892Relates to the use of paid sick leave for bereavement purposes

Congress · introduced 2026-01-13

Allows an employee to use paid sick leave for bereavement upon the death of a family member, or upon pregnancy loss by the employee or the employee's spouse or domestic partner or upon a foster child leaving a foster family provided the foster child was in the care of the foster family for six months or longer.

Latest action: 2026-01-13 IN_SENATE_COMM

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Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO LABOR

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datefromtypeamountrolesource
2026-01-13Nathalia Fernandezsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

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1Nathalia Fernandez (, state_upper NY-34)sponsor05

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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  1. 2026-01-13 · sponsored by Nathalia Fernandez (sponsor) · sponsorship

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