[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6733 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6733

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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    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 Frontline Worker Leave 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 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.
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