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[S. 2683 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.2683

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
           the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen


                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Aviation Administration 
Veteran Transition Improvement Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF DISABLED VETERAN LEAVE IN FEDERAL AVIATION 
ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL 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 period at the end 
    and inserting ``; and''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(J) subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection, section 
        6329, relating to disabled veteran leave.''.
    (b) Certification of Leave.--Section 40122(g) of such title is 
amended--
        (1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and
        (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
        ``(4) Certification of disabled veteran leave.--In order to 
    verify that leave credited to an employee pursuant to paragraph 
    (2)(J) is used for 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 Administration certification, in such form and 
    manner as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
    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 prescribed by the 
Office of Personnel Management under section 6329 of title 5, United 
States Code.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.