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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is terrible logic.  Making things harder for Oct-Dec babies does not make anything more fair, nor does it help people with Sept babies.  There has to be a start date. It could have been the date of enactment and there would still be people who missed it by a day. [/quote]

I guess I should've been more clear in my post. I was trying to make the wording more lenient to grant leave for babies born within a year of October 1, 2020. The government chose that date so they can start budgeting. So using that date as a starting point, I figured anyone born AFTER October 1, 2019 (one year before the effective date in the bill) should get some leave.

I assume that OPM is going to make workers take all the leave within the first year. So there would be no way for your leave to overlap into month 13. So with that in mind, I imagined a "spectrum of grief" for missing the cut off date:

[b]Amount of grief[/b]??????Low??????--------------?????High
?????????[b]Date[/b]??October 1, 2019?--------------?September 30, 2020

Babies born earlier this year (around October 1, 2019) will be nearly one year old by the time the effective date October 1, 2020 rolls around, so the mothers should not have that much grief for "missing out" on a bill that gives leave within the first year. But for a baby born on September 30, 2020 the mothers would be livid to miss the cutoff!

So expanding on the examples from my original post:
?* Born on or before October 1, 2019: Sorry you missed the one year cut off
?* Born on October 2, 2019: You get 1 day of leave to use on October 1, 2020
?* Born on October 3, 2019: You get 2 days of leave to use on October 1 - 2, 2020
?* Born on October 4, 2019: You get 3 days of leave to use on October 1 - 3, 2020
?* ...
?* Born on December 31, 2019: You get 59 days of leave to use on October 1 - December 30, 2020
?* Born on January 1, 2020: You get 60 days of leave to use on October 1 - December 31, 2020
?* Born on January 2, 2020: You get 60 days of leave to use on October 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
?* ...
?* Born on September 30, 2020: You get 60 days of leave to use on October 1, 2020 - September 29, 2021
?* ...

[b]tl;dr:[/b] I'm trying to come up with wording to make the bill more lenient and give at least some leave to babies born between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020.

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