II 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5957 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 
Received 
AN ACT 
To include disabled veteran leave in the personnel 
management system of the Federal Aviation Administration. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration Veteran Transition Improvement Act of 
2016’’. 
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF DISABLED VETERAN LEAVE IN FED-
ERAL 
AVIATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
PER-
SONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 40122(g)(2) of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(2) in subparagraph (I)(iii), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(J) subject to paragraph (4) of this sub-
section, section 6329, relating to disabled vet-
eran leave.’’. 
(b) CERTIFICATION OF LEAVE.—Section 40122(g) of 
such title is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (5); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) CERTIFICATION
OF
DISABLED
VETERAN 
LEAVE.—In order to verify that leave credited to an 
employee pursuant to paragraph (2)(J) is used for 
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treating a service-connected disability, that employee 
shall, notwithstanding section 6329(c) of title 5, 
submit to the Assistant Administrator for Human 
Resource Management of the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration certification, in such form and manner 
as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration may prescribe, that the employee used that 
leave for purposes of being furnished treatment for 
that disability by a health care provider.’’. 
(c) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply with respect to any employee of the 
Federal Aviation Administration hired on or after the date 
that is one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(d) POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.—Not later than 
270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
shall prescribe policies and procedures to carry out the 
amendments made by this section that are comparable, to 
the maximum extent practicable, to the regulations 
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prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management under 
section 6329 of title 5, United States Code. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 20, 
2016. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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