H. R. 313 

One Hundred Fourteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen 

An Act 

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide leave to any new Federal employee 

who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more 

for purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such disability, and for other 

purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wounded Warriors Federal Leave 

Act of 2015’’. 

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL LEAVE FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE DISABLED VETERANS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 63 of title 5, United 

States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘§ 6329. Disabled veteran leave 

‘‘(a) During the 12-month period beginning on the first day 

of employment, any employee who is a veteran with a serviceconnected disability rated at 30 percent or more is entitled to 

leave, without loss or reduction in pay, for purposes of undergoing 

medical treatment for such disability for which sick leave could 

regularly be used. 

‘‘(b)(1) The leave credited to an employee under subsection 

(a) may not exceed 104 hours. 

‘‘(2) Any leave credited to an employee pursuant to subsection 

(a) that is not used during the 12-month period described in such 

subsection may not be carried over and shall be forfeited. 

‘‘(c) In order to verify that leave credited to an employee pursuant to subsection (a) is used for treating a service-connected disability, such employee shall submit to the head of the employing 

agency certification, in such form and manner as the Director 

of the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe, that such 

employee used such leave for purposes of being furnished treatment 

for such disability by a health care provider. 

‘‘(d) In this section— 

‘‘(1) the term ‘employee’ has the meaning given such term 

in section 2105, and includes an officer or employee of the 

United States Postal Service or of the Postal Regulatory 

Commission; 

‘‘(2) the term ‘service-connected’ has the meaning given 

such term in section 101(16) of title 38; and 

‘‘(3) the term ‘veteran’ has the meaning given such term 

in section 101(2) of such title.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections for chapter 

63 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding after 

the item relating to section 6328 the following: 

‘‘6329. Disabled veteran leave.’’. 

(c) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by subsection (a) 

shall apply with respect to any employee (as that term is defined 

in section 6329(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, as added by 

subsection (a)) hired on or after the date that is 1 year after 

the date of enactment of this Act. 

(d) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 9 months after the date 

of enactment of this Act— 

(1) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 

shall prescribe regulations with respect to the leave provided 

by the amendment in subsection (a) for employees, but not 

including employees of the United States Postal Service or 

the Postal Regulatory Commission; and 

(2) the Postmaster General shall prescribe regulations for 

such leave with respect to officers and employees of the United 

States Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.