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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3001 

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. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 11, 2014 

Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. MORAN) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wounded Warriors 

5 Federal Leave Act of 2014’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL LEAVE FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES 

2 WHO ARE DISABLED VETERANS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 63 of 

4 title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 

5 end the following: 

6 ‘‘§ 6329. Disabled veteran leave 

7 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

8 ‘‘(1) the term ‘employee’— 

9 ‘‘(A) has the meaning given such term in 

10 section 2105; and 

11 ‘‘(B) includes an officer or employee of the 

12 United States Postal Service or of the Postal 

13 Regulatory Commission; 

14 ‘‘(2) the term ‘service-connected’ has the mean15 ing given such term in section 101(16) of title 38; 

16 and 

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

18 such term in section 101(2) of title 38. 

19 ‘‘(b) LEAVE CREDITED.—During the 12-month pe20 riod beginning on the first day of the employment of an 

21 employee who is a veteran with a service-connected dis22 ability rated as 30 percent or more disabling, the employee 

23 is entitled to leave, without loss or reduction in pay, for 

24 purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such dis25 ability for which sick leave could regularly be used. 

26 ‘‘(c) LIMITATIONS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) AMOUNT OF LEAVE.—The leave credited 

2 to an employee under subsection (b) may not exceed 

3 104 hours. 

4 ‘‘(2) NO CARRY OVER.—Any leave credited to 

5 an employee under subsection (b) that is not used 

6 during the 12-month period described in such sub7 section may not be carried over and shall be for8 feited. 

9 ‘‘(d) CERTIFICATION.—In order to verify that leave 

10 credited to an employee under subsection (b) is used for 

11 treating a service-connected disability, the employee shall 

12 submit to the head of the employing agency a certification, 

13 in such form and manner as the Director of the Office 

14 of Personnel Management may prescribe, that the em15 ployee used the leave for purposes of being furnished 

16 treatment for the disability by a health care provider.’’. 

17 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 

18 The table of sections for chapter 63 of title 5, United 

19 States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating 

20 to section 6328 the following: 

‘‘6329. Disabled veteran leave.’’. 

21 (c) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by sub22 section (a) shall apply with respect to an employee (as that 

23 term is defined in section 6329(a)(1) of title 5, United 

24 States Code, as added by subsection (a)) hired on or after 


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1 the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this 

2 Act. 

3 (d) REGULATIONS.— 

4 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

5 the date of enactment of this Act— 

6 (A) the Postmaster General shall prescribe 

7 regulations with respect to the leave provided 

8 under the amendment made by subsection (a) 

9 for employees of the United States Postal Serv10 ice and the Postal Regulatory Commission; and 

11 (B) the Director of the Office of Personnel 

12 Management shall prescribe regulations with re13 spect to the leave provided under the amend14 ment made by subsection (a) for all other em15 ployees. 

16 (2) BRIEFING REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 

17 3 months after the date of enactment of this Act, 

18 and every 3 months thereafter until the date on 

19 which the Director of the Office of Personnel Man20 agement prescribes final regulations under para21 graph (1)(B), the Director shall brief the Committee 

22 on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 

23 the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and 


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1 Government Reform of the House of Representatives 

2 regarding the development of such regulations. 

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