; and (2) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking son, daughter, spouse, or parent and inserting employee's son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, spouse or domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, uncle or aunt, or nephew or niece, or (with relation to the employee) any other individual whose close association is the equivalent of a family relationship, as appropriate, . 3. Leave to care for a domestic partner, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent-in-law, adult child, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling of the employee, or another related individual for Federal employees (a) Definitions (1) Inclusion of a domestic partner, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent-in-law, adult child, grandparent, grandchild, or sibling of the employee, or another individual whose close association is the equivalent of a family relationship Section 6381 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (A) in paragraph (11) by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (B) in paragraph (12), by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (13) the term any other individual whose close association is the equivalent of a family relationship , used with respect to an employee, means any person with whom the employee has a significant personal bond that is or is like a family relationship, regardless of biological or legal relationship; (14) the term domestic partner , used with respect to an employee, means— (A) the person recognized as the domestic partner of the employee under any domestic partnership or civil union law of a State or political subdivision of a State; or (B) in the case of an unmarried employee, an unmarried adult person who is in a committed, personal relationship with the employee, is not a domestic partner as described in subparagraph (A) or in such a relationship with any other person, and who is designated to the employing agency by such employee as that employee’s domestic partner