There are companion bills pending before both the House and the Senate requiring paid sick leave. On November 10, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's Children and Families Subcommittee held a hearing on paid sick leave legislation. The Healthy Families Act (H.R. 2460, S. 1152),would require employers to provide workers with up to seven days of paid sick leave which could be earned over a period of time and would be carried over from one year to the next. It would cover the sickness of the employee or to care for sick parents or children, and visits to a health care provider for a specific issue or preventative care as well as “an absence resulting from domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking”. Employees would be allowed absences up to three days without a medical certification. Representative George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, introduced H.R. 3991, a bill which would mandate emergency sick leave, providing for five days paid leave for employees with flu-like symptoms in instances where employers tell employees to go home. He advised that he expects to hold hearings and expects a vote soon thereafter regarding paid sick leave legislation. Senator Dodd introduced a companion bill to H.R. 3991, with his bill providing for seven paid sick days. The Obama administration voiced support for both bills, saying that the Family and Medical Leave Act does not cover situations such as the expected 2009 flu epidemic. Opponents argued that supporters underestimate the cost to the recovering economy and the legislation would potentially cost jobs. A representative for The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) disputed the need for this legislation, saying that many employers already offer sufficient paid leave, and cautioned against “rushing to impose new mandates that will do more harm than good.”