Title: A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the sources of the authority to issue regulations regarding certifications and other criteria applicable to legislative branch employees under the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill modifies the self-certification requirements for federal employees who use disabled veteran leave.
Currently, a federal employee who uses disabled veteran leave must certify that the leave was used to undergo medical treatment for a service-connected disability. The Office of Personnel Management is authorized to prescribe the form and manner of such certification.
This bill adds a new provision to specify, in the case of a legislative branch employee, which office is authorized to prescribe the form and manner of the certification.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3098 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3098

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the sources of the 
   authority to issue regulations regarding certifications and other 
 criteria applicable to legislative branch employees under the Wounded 
                      Warriors Federal Leave Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 20, 2018

Mrs. Hyde-Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the sources of the 
   authority to issue regulations regarding certifications and other 
 criteria applicable to legislative branch employees under the Wounded 
                      Warriors Federal Leave Act.

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

SECTION 1. REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO LEGISLATIVE BRANCH EMPLOYEES UNDER 
              WOUNDED WARRIORS FEDERAL LEAVE ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 6329(c) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``In order'' and inserting ``(1) In 
        order''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) In the case of an employee of an office of the legislative 
branch, the certification described in paragraph (1) shall be 
prescribed--
            ``(A) in the case of an employee of the House of 
        Representatives, by the Committee on House Administration of 
        the House of Representatives;
            ``(B) in the case of an employee of the Senate, by the 
        Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate; or
            ``(C) in the case of an employee of any other office of the 
        legislative branch, by the head of the office.''.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 270 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Committee on House Administration of the 
House of Representatives, the Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate, and the head of each other office of the legislative branch 
shall prescribe regulations governing the application of section 6329 
of title 5, United States Code, including the certification requirement 
under subsection (c) of such section (as amended by this section), to 
employees of the House of Representatives, employees of the Senate, and 
employees of such office, respectively.
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