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 102 STAT. 2844

PUBLIC LAW 100-566—OCT. 31, 1988

"6366. "6367. "6368. "6369. "6370. "6371. "6372. "6373.

Eligibility for leave recipients. Receipt and use of leave from a leave bank. Termination of medical emergency. Restoration of transferred leave. Prohibition of coercion. Accrual of leave. Additional leave bank programs. Limitation on employee participation.".

(c) IMPLEMENTATION OF LEAVE TRANSFER AND LEAVE BANK PRO-

Regulations.

Regulations.

GRAMS.—(1) No later than 3 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to implement leave transfer programs pursuant to the amendments made by this Act. (2) No later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act— (A) the head of each agency involved under sections 6332 and 6339 of title 5, United States Code, shall establish and begin operating a leave transfer program in accordance with applicable provisions of subchapter III of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, and applicable regulations prescribed by the Office; and ^ (B) the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to implement leave bank programs pursuant to the amendments made by this Act. (3) No later than 9 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each agency involved under section 6362 of title 5, United States Code, shall establish and begin operating a leave bank in accordance with subchapter IV of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, and applicable regulations prescribed by the Office. (d) TERMINATION OF LEAVE TRANSFER AND LEAVE BANK PROGRAMS

AFTER 5 YEARS.—(1)(A) Subchapters III and IV of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, are repealed effective 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (B) The table of sections for subchapter III and the table of sections for subchapter IV of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, are repealed effective 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) If a leave transfer program under subchapter III of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, or the leave bank program under subchapter IV of such chapter, terminates before the termination of the medical emergency affecting a leave recipient under such program, any leave which was transferred to the leave recipient before the termination of the program shall remain available for use (including by restoration to leave donors or leave contributors, as the case may be, and if applicable) as if the program had remained in effect. (3)(A) Any annual leave remaining in an agency's leave bank under subchapter IV of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, shall, upon the repeal of such subchapter be dispensed in accordance with subparagraph (B). (B) If there are any employees who, based on applications submitted before the effective date of the repeal of such subchapter, are found (before, on, or after that date) to be eligible to receive leave in connection with any medical emergency, annual leave contributed to the leave bank before such date shall, until the last such emergency has terminated, remain available for use by any such employee under the same terms and conditions as if the program had remained in effect.

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