[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5060]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5648. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EQUITY FOR READY RESERVE CORPS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH 
                   SERVICE.

       (a) Dual Employment.--Section 5534 of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``, a member of the Ready Reserve Corps of 
     the Public Health Service,'' after ``armed forces''; and
       (2) by inserting ``, member of the Ready Reserve Corps,'' 
     after ``allowances as a Reserve''.
       (b) Uniformed Service Leave.--
       (1) In general.--Section 6323 of title 5, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (A) in the section heading, by striking ``Military leave; 
     Reserves and National Guardsmen'' and inserting ``Uniformed 
     services leave''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, an 
     employee as defined by section 2105 of this title or an 
     individual employed by the government of the District of 
     Columbia is entitled to leave without loss in pay, time, or 
     performance or efficiency rating for active duty or inactive-
     duty training (as defined in section 101 of title 37) as a 
     member of the Ready Reserve Corps of the Public Health 
     Service. Leave under this subsection accrues for an employee 
     or individual at the rate of 15 days per fiscal year and, to 
     the extent that it is not used in a fiscal year, accumulates 
     for use in the succeeding fiscal year until it totals 15 days 
     at the beginning of a fiscal year.
       ``(2) In the case of an employee or individual employed on 
     a part-time career employment basis (as defined in section 
     3401(2) of this title), the rate at which leave accrues under 
     this subsection shall be a percentage of the rate prescribed 
     under paragraph (1) which is determined by dividing 40 into 
     the number of hours in the regularly scheduled workweek of 
     that employee or individual during that fiscal year.
       ``(3) The minimum charge for leave under this subsection is 
     one hour, and additional charges are in multiples thereof.''.
       (2) Conforming amendment.--The table of sections for 
     chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking the item relating to section 6323 and inserting the 
     following:

``6323. Uniformed services leave.''.
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