FMLA Organ Donation as Serious Health Condition
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-07-22 — Living Donor Protection Act of 2025: cross-connection with living-donor-employment-leave: Both address FMLA treatment of organ donation; the Living Donor Protection Act pairs FMLA leave expansion with an anti-discrimination framework for living donors, complementing the separate effort to classify donation as a serious health condition. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-07-22 — To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to clarify that organ donation surgery qualifies as a serious health condition.: HR4582 (119th Congress) introduced to amend the FMLA of 1993 and title 5 U.S.C. to clarify that organ donation surgery qualifies as a serious health condition, making both private-sector and federal employees who undergo donation surgery eligible for job-protected leave. (novelty: 2)
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Contributing findings
To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to clarify that organ donation surgery qualifies as a serious health condition.
22-jul-2025
novelty 2
per-area 2
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