---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6329d"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6329d"
heading: "Parental bereavement leave"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6329d"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 63 — Leave"
  - "Subchapter II — Other Paid Leave"
---

# §6329d. Parental bereavement leave

- (a) **Definitions.—** In this section—
  - (1) the terms “[employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2)” and “son or daughter” have the meanings given those terms in [section 6381](/usc/5/6381.md); and
  - (2) the term “paid leave” means, with respect to an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2), leave without [loss](/usc/5/8401.md?p=18) of or reduction in—
    - (A) [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4);
    - (B) leave to which the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) is otherwise entitled under law; or
    - (C) credit for time or [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26).
- (b) **Bereavement Leave.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** Subject to paragraphs [(2)](#b-2) and [(3)](#b-3), an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) shall be entitled to a total of 2 administrative workweeks of paid leave during any 12-month period because of the death of a son or daughter of the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2).
  - (2) **Limitation.—** Leave under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) may not be taken by an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule unless the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) and the employing [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) of the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) agree otherwise.
  - (3) **Notice.—** In any case in which the necessity for leave under this subsection is foreseeable, the [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) shall provide the employing [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) with such notice as is reasonable and practicable.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title XI, § 1111(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1953.)