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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 313 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 313

   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.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2015

 Mr. Lynch (for himself, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Jones, Mr. 
  Connolly, Ms. Norton, and Mr. Butterfield) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL

 
   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:
``Sec. 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 service-connected 
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.''.
    (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 one 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.
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