[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1520 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1520

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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                    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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                                 A BILL


 
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.

    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 ``POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery 
Support Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. 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.
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