[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5348 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5348

  To amend title II of the Public Health Service Act to include as an 
 additional right or privilege of commissioned officers of the Public 
 Health Service (and their beneficiaries) certain leave provided under 
 title 10, United States Code to commissioned officers of the Army (or 
                         their beneficiaries).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 19, 2024

Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title II of the Public Health Service Act to include as an 
 additional right or privilege of commissioned officers of the Public 
 Health Service (and their beneficiaries) certain leave provided under 
 title 10, United States Code to commissioned officers of the Army (or 
                         their beneficiaries).

    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 ``Uniformed Services Leave Parity 
Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF LEAVE PROVISIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES 
              TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 221(a) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 213a(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(22) Chapter 40, Leave, except that, in applying section 
        701(b) of such chapter 40 for purposes of this section, `120 
        days' leave' shall be substituted for `60 days' leave'.''.
    (b) Conforming Repeal.--Section 219 of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 210-1) is repealed.
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