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POW/MIA Accounting and Recovery Support Act of 2013

H.R. 1520 · 113th Congress · Apr 12, 2013 · Lineage

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.

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.