---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6327"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6327"
heading: "Absence in connection with serving as a bone-marrow or organ donor"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6327"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 63 — Leave"
  - "Subchapter II — Other Paid Leave"
---

# §6327. Absence in connection with serving as a bone-marrow or organ donor

- (a) An [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) in or under an [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) is entitled to leave without [loss](/usc/5/8401.md?p=18) of or reduction in [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4), leave to which otherwise entitled, credit for time or [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26), or performance or efficiency rating, for the time necessary to permit such [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) to serve as a bone-marrow or organ donor.
- (b) An [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) may, in any calendar year, use—
  - (1) not to exceed 7 days of leave under this section to serve as a bone-marrow donor; and
  - (2) not to exceed 30 days of leave under this section to serve as an organ donor.
- (c) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations for the [administration](/usc/5/9801.md?p=1) of this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–329, title VI, § 629(a)(1), Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2423; amended Pub. L. 106–56, § 1(b), Sept. 24, 1999, 113 Stat. 407.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 6327 was renumbered section 6328 of this title.

### Amendments

1999—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–56 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “Not to exceed 7 days of leave may be used under this section by an employee in a calendar year.”