POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-1520
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2013-04-12
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense

Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Employee leave

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Military personnel and dependents
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to allow DOD civilian employees who are required to take a furlough that would otherwise occur during their deployment in support of accounting and recovery efforts by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command to take such furlough after returning from the deployment.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1520 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 12, 2013 Mr. Lynch (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania , Mr. Higgins , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , and Mr. Quigley ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To require the Secretary of Defense to allow civilian employees of the Department of Defense to delay furloughs until returning from a deployment in support of accounting and recovery efforts by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013 . 2. Exception to civilian furlough requirements for Department of Defense employees deployed in support of Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command accounting and recovery efforts The Secretary of Defense shall require that, with respect to a civilian employee of the Department of Defense who is required to take a furlough that would otherwise occur during the deployment of that employee in support of accounting and recovery efforts by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, the employee may take the furlough after returning from the deployment.