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 Representa-
tives 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:
‘‘§ 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 pre-
scribe 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 sub-
section (d);
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(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 relat-
ing 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
RE-
STORED.—(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 ac-
counts 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 enact-
ment 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 ‘‘em-
ployee’’ 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.