H.R. 6326: Military Family Support Act of 2008
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H.R. 6326: Military Family Support Act of 2008
110th Congress · introduced 2008-06-19 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2008-06-19 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Military Family Support Act of 2008
Plain summary
Military Family Support Act of 2008 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish a program to authorize a caregiver (a federal employee at least 18 years of age capable of providing care to a child or other dependent family member of a member of the Armed Forces) to use: (1) any available sick leave for the provision of such care in the same manner as annual leave is used; and (2) any federal leave available to that caregiver as though that period of caregiving is a medical emergency. Requires the program to: (1) provide a process for reasonable notice of the need for leave; and (2) protect employees from discrimination or retaliation for the use of leave under this Act and provide the opportunity to appeal a denial of its use. Requires the service member for whom the caregiving is provided to be performing service in support of a contingency operation or in situations for which hostile fire or imminent danger pay is authorized and to designate the caregiver for his or her family. Terminates the program on December 31, 2012. Provides for an offsetting reduction in FY2008 appropriations for the Department of Defense for research, development, test and evaluation.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
Military Family Support Act of 2008
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6] · 16 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
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- Appropriation
- Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
- Authorization
- A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-110hr6326.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/110/hr>
Record fed-us-cong110-hr6326 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110