S.Amdt. 5648

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.”.