`[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2751 Engrossed in House (EH)]

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2751

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                                 AN ACT

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the granting of 
  leave to Federal employees wishing to serve as bone-marrow or organ 
 donors, and to allow Federal employees to use sick leave for purposes 
                  relating to the adoption of a child.





103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2751

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the granting of 
  leave to Federal employees wishing to serve as bone-marrow or organ 
 donors, and to allow Federal employees to use sick leave for purposes 
                  relating to the adoption of a child.

    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 ``Federal Employees Humanitarian Leave 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF PAID LEAVE TO SERVE AS A BONE-MARROW OR ORGAN 
              DONOR.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 63 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 6327. Absence in connection with serving as a bone-marrow or 
              organ donor
    ``(a) An employee in or under an Executive agency is entitled to 
leave without loss of or reduction in pay, leave to which otherwise 
entitled, credit for time or service, or performance or efficiency 
rating, for the time necessary to permit such employee to serve as a 
bone-marrow or organ donor.
    ``(b) Not to exceed 7 days of leave may be used under this section 
by an employee in a calendar year.
    ``(c) The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations 
for the administration of this section.''.
    (b) Technical Amendments.--(1) Section 6129 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``6327,'' after ``6326,''.
    (2) The table of sections for chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to section 6326 the 
following:

``6327. Absence in connection with serving as a bone-marrow or organ 
                            donor.''.

SEC. 3. USE OF SICK LEAVE IN ADOPTING A CHILD.

    (a) In General.--Section 6307 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Sick leave provided by this section may be used for purposes 
relating to the adoption of a child.''; and
            (3) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated by paragraph 
        (1)), by inserting ``or for purposes relating to the adoption 
        of a child,'' after ``ailment,''.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--Section 6129 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``6307 (a) and (c),'' and inserting ``6307 
(a) and (d),''.
    (c) Election to Have Annual Leave Restored.--(1) The Office of 
Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations under which any 
employee who used or uses annual leave for an adoption-related purpose, 
after September 30, 1991, and before the date as of which sick leave 
first becomes available for such purpose as a result of the enactment 
of this section, may, upon appropriate written application, elect to 
have such employee's leave accounts adjusted to reflect the amount of 
annual leave and sick leave, respectively, which would remain had sick 
leave been used instead of all or any portion of the annual leave 
actually used, as designated by the employee.
    (2) An application under this subsection may not be approved unless 
it is submitted--
            (A) within 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act or such later date as the Office may prescribe;
            (B) in such form and manner as the Office shall require; 
        and
            (C) by an individual who is an employee as of the time of 
        application.
    (3) For the purpose of this subsection, the term ``employee'' has 
the meaning given such term in section 6301(2) of title 5, United 
States Code.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 21, 1993.

            Attest:






                                                                 Clerk.`