Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-102

§6365 Contributions of Annual Leave

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart E — Attendance and Leave › CHAPTER 63 — LEAVE › SUBCHAPTER IV — VOLUNTARY LEAVE BANK PROGRAM › § 6365

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

An employee can ask in writing to move a set number of hours from their annual leave into their agency’s leave bank. The request can say they want to help a specific proposed or current leave recipient. The agency can transfer all or part of the hours requested, but a contributor may not give more than one-half of the annual leave they would earn that leave year. If the employee would otherwise lose leave at year’s end, they may give no more than the hours left in the year that they are scheduled to work and get paid. The agency’s Leave Bank Board can waive these limits in writing. The Office of Personnel Management will set an open enrollment period each year for making contributions.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §6365

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)(1)An employee may, by written application to the Leave Bank Board, request that a specified number of hours be transferred from the annual leave account of such employee to the leave bank established by such agency.

(2)An employee may state a concern and desire to aid a specified proposed leave recipient or a leave recipient in the application filed under paragraph (1).

(b)(1)Upon approving an application under subsection (a), the employing agency of the leave contributor may transfer all or any part of the number of hours requested for transfer, except that the number of hours so transferred may not exceed the limitations under paragraph (2).

(2)(A)In any one leave year, a leave contributor may contribute no more than a total of one-half of the amount of annual leave such contributor would be entitled to accrue during the leave year in which the contribution is made.

(B)A leave contributor 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) may contribute no more than the number of hours remaining in the leave year (as of the date of the contribution) for which the leave contributor is scheduled to work and receive pay.

(c)The Leave Bank Board of a leave contributor may waive the limitations under subsection (b)(2). Any such waiver shall be in writing.

(d)The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations establishing an open enrollment period during which an employee may contribute leave under subsection (a) for a leave year.

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 6365

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102