S.Amdt. 2864

SA 2864. Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 end of subtitle H of title X, insert the following:

SEC. 1095. APPLICATION OF LEAVE PROVISIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE
ARMED FORCES TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
SERVICE.

(a) In General.--Section 221(a) of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 213a(a)) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
``(22) Chapter 40, Leave, except that, in applying section
701(b) of such chapter 40 for purposes of this section, `120
days' leave' shall be substituted for `60 days' leave'.''.
(b) Conforming Repeal.--Section 219 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 210-1) is repealed.

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