113 HR 1520 IH: POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013 U.S. House of Representatives 2013-04-12 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

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.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013.

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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.