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PUBLIC LAW 93-508-DEC. 3, 1974

[88 STAT.

"(c) Each department, agency, and instrumentality in the executive branch shall include in its affirmative action plan for the hiring, placement, and advancement of handicapped individuals in such department, agency, or instrumentality as required by section 501(b) of 29 USC 791. Public Law 93-112 (87 Stat. 391), a separate specification of plans (in accordance with regulations which the Civil Service Commission shall prescribe in consultation with the Administrator, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, consistent with the purposes, provisions, and priorities of such Act) to promote and carry out such affirmative action with respect to disabled veterans in order to achieve the purpose of this section. Review and " (d) The Civil Service Commission shall be responsible for the evaluation. review and evaluation of the implementation of this section and the activities of each such department, agency, and instrumentality to iic^^fo°n'^' ^"^" carry out the purpose and provisions of this section. The Commission shall periodically obtain and publish (on at least a semiannual basis) reports on such implementation and activities from each such department, agency, and instrumentality, including specification of the use and extent of appointments made under subsection (b) of this section and the results of the plans required under subsection (c) thereof. Report to Conu/^x rj.^^ ^^-^-j §^^.^^^6 Commission shall submit to the Congress gress. annually a report on activities carried out under this section, except that, with respect to subsection (c) of this section, the Commission may include a report of such activities separately in the report required to be submitted by section 501(d) of such Public Law 93-112, regarding the employment of handicapped individuals by each department, agency, and instrumentality. " V e t e r a n " and "(f) Notwithstanding section 2011 of this title, the terms 'veteran' •disabled vetand 'disabled veteran' as used in this section shall have the meaning provided for under generally applicable civil service law and regulations.". (b) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end thereof Disabled vet-

"2014. Employment within the Federal Government".

SEC. 404. (a) Part III of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new chapter as follows: "Chapter 43—Veterans' Remployment Rights "Sec. "2021. Right to reemployment of inducted persons; benefits protected. "2022. Enforcement procedures. "2023. Remployment by the United States, territory, possession, or the District of Columbia. "2024. Rights of persons who enlist or are called to active duty; Reserves. "2025. Assistance in obtaining reemployment. "2026. Prior rights for reemployment. 38 USC 2021.

50 USC app 451.

50 USC app. 459.

•*§2021. Right to reemployment of inducted persons; benefits protected " (a) In the case of any person who is inducted into the Armed Forces of the United States under the Military Selective Service Act (or under any prior or subsequent corresponding law) for training and service and who leaves a position (other than a temporary position) in the employ of any employer in order to perform such training and service, and (1) receives a certificate described in section 9(a) of the Military Selective Service Act (relating to the satisfactory completion of military service), and (2) makes application for reemployment within ninety days after such person is relieved from such training and service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year—

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