[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2683 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2683

To include disabled veteran leave in the personnel management system of 
                  the Federal Aviation Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 15, 2016

  Ms. Hirono (for herself and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
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), 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.
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