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H.R. 1520House113th Congress (2013-2015)In Committee

POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013

Sponsored by Stephen F. LynchRep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA)
Introduced April 12, 2013

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

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April 23, 2013

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Introduced in House

April 12, 2013

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Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Armed Services Committee

April 12, 2013

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

Readiness Subcommittee

April 23, 2013

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Glenn Thompson
Rep. Glenn ThompsonR-PA-5 · Apr 16, 2013

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 1520, the POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, or JPAC, is a task force within…

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Introduced in HouseIssued April 12, 2013

I

113th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1520

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 12, 2013

Mr. Lynch (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Quigley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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To require the Secretary of Defense to allow civilian employees of the Department of Defense to delay furloughs until returning from a deployment in support of accounting and recovery efforts by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013.

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Exception to civilian furlough requirements for Department of Defense employees deployed in support of Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command accounting and recovery efforts

The Secretary of Defense shall require that, with respect to a civilian employee of the Department of Defense who is required to take a furlough that would otherwise occur during the deployment of that employee in support of accounting and recovery efforts by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, the employee may take the furlough after returning from the deployment.