Federal Frontline Worker Leave Protection Act

Bill: 116-hr-6733
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Wexton, Jennifer [D-VA-10]
Introduced: 2020-05-05
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Employee leave

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Infectious and parasitic diseases
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Federal Frontline Worker Leave Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill restores annual leave that is lost by federal employees who respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.</p> <p>The bill applies retroactively.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6733 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 5, 2020 Ms. Wexton (for herself, Ms. Norton , Mr. Lynch , Mr. Beyer , and Mr. Raskin ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To amend section 6304 of title 5, United States Code, to restore annual leave lost by certain Federal employees due to the COVID–19 pandemic.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Frontline Worker Leave Protection Act . 2. Restore annual leave (a) In general Section 6304(d) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) For the purposes of this subsection, the service of an employee responding to the COVID–19 pandemic shall be deemed to be an exigency of the public business, and any leave that, by reason of such service, is lost by the employee by operation of this section (regardless of whether such leave was scheduled) shall be restored to the employee and shall be credited and available in accordance with paragraph (2). . (b) Applicability The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to any leave lost before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.