[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6441 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6441

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide unpaid leave for 
 certain National Guard service by Federal employees and employees of 
           the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2020

 Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide unpaid leave for 
 certain National Guard service by Federal employees and employees of 
           the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Protecting Civil Employment for Our 
National Guard Act''.

SEC. 2. UNPAID LEAVE FOR STATE ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE.

    Section 6323 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(e)(1) An employee as defined by section 2105 or an individual 
employed by the government of the District of Columbia, permanent or 
temporary indefinite, who is a member of the National Guard, as 
described in section 101 of title 32, and on State active duty shall be 
granted leave without pay for each day of such duty.
    ``(2) Any such employee or individual may substitute any annual or 
sick leave accrued or accumulated by such employee or individual for 
any leave provided under paragraph (1).
    ``(3) In this section--
            ``(A) the term `State' means any of the 50 States, the 
        District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and a 
        territory of the United States; and
            ``(B) the term `State active duty' means--
                    ``(i) duty performed by a member of the National 
                Guard under orders issued by the chief executive of a 
                State in accordance with the laws of that State; and
                    ``(ii) does not include duty performed under title 
                10 or 32.''.
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