[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13515]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION VETERAN TRANSITION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 
                                  2016

  Mr. COATS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Commerce 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 2683 and the 
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2683) to include disabled veteran leave in the 
     personnel management system of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. COATS. Mr. President, I further ask that the Hirono amendment be 
agreed to; the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed; and 
the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table 
with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 5091) was agreed to, as follows:

                     (Purpose: To improve the bill)

       On page 2, line 11, strike ``paragraph (4)'' and insert 
     ``paragraph (4) of this subsection''.

  The bill (S. 2683), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a 
third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2683

       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.

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