{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-1-612.04","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 1-612.04","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a)\nFor the purposes of this section through § 1-612.12, the term:\n(1)\n\"Agency\" includes the Council.\n(2)\n\"Child\" means:\n(A)\nAn individual under 21 years of age;\n(B)\nAn individual, regardless of age, who is substantially dependent upon the employee by reason of physical or mental disability; or\n(C)\nAn individual who is under 23 years of age who is a full-time student at an accredited college or university.\n(3)\n\"D.C. FMLA\" means the District of Columbia Family and Medical Leave Act of 1990 (subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 32).\n(4)\n\"Eligible employee\" means a District government employee, including an employee of an independent agency; except, that the term \"eligible employee\" does not include:\n(A)\nA temporary employee appointed for less than 90 days; or\n(B)\nAn employee with intermittent employment.\n(5)\n\"Family member\" means:\n(A)\nA biological, adopted, or foster son or daughter, a stepson or stepdaughter, a legal ward, a son or daughter of a domestic partner, or a person to whom an eligible employee stands in loco parentis;\n(B)\nA biological, foster, or adoptive parent, a parent-in-law, a stepparent, a legal guardian, or other person who stood in loco parentis to an eligible employee when the eligible employee was a child;\n(C)\nAn individual to whom an eligible employee is related by domestic partnership or marriage;\n(D)\nA grandparent of an eligible employee; or\n(E)\nA sibling of an eligible employee.\n(6)\n\"Leave recipient\" means an eligible employee whose application to receive leave from the PFML Bank has been approved pursuant to § 1-612.08.\n(7)\n\"Leave contributor\" means an employee who contributes accrued annual, restored, or universal leave to the PFML Bank.\n(8)\n\"Miscarriage\" means the loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks' gestation.\n(9)\n\"PFML Bank\" means the Paid Family and Medical Leave Supplemental Bank established in § 1-612.05.\n(10)\n\"PFML Bank Administrator\" means the Department of Human Resources.\n(11)\n\"Pre-natal medical care\" means routine and specialty appointments, exams, and treatments associated with a pregnancy provided by a health care provider, including pre-natal check-ups, ultrasounds, treatment for pregnancy complications, bedrest that is required or prescribed by a health care provider, and pre-natal physical therapy.\n(12)\n\"Prolonged absence\" means an employee's absence from duty for at least 10 consecutive workdays.\n(13)\n\"Qualifying family leave\" means leave that an eligible employee may take following the occurrence of a qualifying family leave event.\n(14)\n\"Qualifying family leave event\" means the diagnosis or occurrence of a serious health condition of a family member of the eligible employee.\n(15)\n\"Qualifying leave event\" means a qualifying family leave event, qualifying medical leave event, or qualifying parental leave event.\n(16)\n\"Qualifying medical leave\" means leave that an eligible employee may take following the occurrence of a qualifying medical leave event.\n(17)\n\"Qualifying medical leave event\" means, for an eligible employee, the diagnosis or occurrence of a serious health condition, which shall include the occurrence of a stillbirth and the medical care related to a miscarriage.\n(18)\n\"Qualifying parental leave event\" means one of the following:\n(A)\nThe birth of a child of an eligible employee;\n(B)\nThe legal placement of a child with an eligible employee (such as through adoption, guardianship, or foster care); or\n(C)\nThe placement with an eligible employee of a child for whom the eligible employee permanently assumes and discharges parental responsibilities.\n(19)\n\"Qualifying pre-natal leave\" means paid leave that an eligible employee who is pregnant may take for pre-natal medical care following the occurrence of a qualifying pre-natal leave event.\n(20)\n\"Qualifying pre-natal leave event\" means the diagnosis of pregnancy by a health care provider.\n(21)\n\"Serious health condition\" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 32-501(9).\n(22)\n\"Stillbirth\" means the death of a fetus at 20 weeks' gestation or later for an eligible employee who was pregnant with the fetus.","path":["Title 1. Government Organization.","Chapter 6. Merit Personnel System.","Subchapter XII. Hours of Work; Legal Holidays; Leave."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/1-612.04","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"d1219e9fe035be2819e126fcdc68e9d447723276a975a9600bb2612ae9595030","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-1-612.03c","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-1-612.04a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}