---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6334"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6334"
heading: "Donations of leave"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6334"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 63 — Leave"
  - "Subchapter III — Voluntary Transfers of Leave"
---

# §6334. Donations of leave

- (a) An [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) may, by written application to the employing [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) of such [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2), request that a specified number of hours be transferred from the annual leave [account](/usc/5/8401.md?p=1) of such [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) to the annual leave [account](/usc/5/8401.md?p=1) of a [leave recipient](/usc/5/6331.md?p=2) in accordance with section 6332.
- (b)
  - (1) In any one leave year, a [leave donor](/usc/5/6331.md?p=3) may donate no more than a total of one-half of the amount of annual leave such donor would be entitled to accrue during the leave year in which the donation is made.
  - (2) A [leave donor](/usc/5/6331.md?p=3) who is projected to have annual leave that otherwise would be subject to forfeiture at the end of the leave year under [section 6304(a)](/usc/5/6304.md?p=a) may donate no more than the number of hours remaining in the leave year (as of the date of the transfer) for which the [leave donor](/usc/5/6331.md?p=3) is scheduled to work and receive [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4).
  - (3) The employing [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) of a [leave donor](/usc/5/6331.md?p=3) may waive the limitation under paragraphs [(1)](#b-1) and [(2)](#b-2). Any such waiver shall be made in writing.
- (c) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to include procedures to carry out this subchapter when the [leave donor](/usc/5/6331.md?p=3) and the [leave recipient](/usc/5/6331.md?p=2) are employed by different [agencies](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–566, § 2(a), Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2835.)