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Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-102

§6372 Additional Leave Bank Programs

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart E — Attendance and Leave › CHAPTER 63 — LEAVE › SUBCHAPTER IV — VOLUNTARY LEAVE BANK PROGRAM › § 6372

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Keeps most "excepted agencies" and their workers out of the federal leave bank programs set up earlier in this law. "Excepted agency" and "head of an excepted agency" mean the same things as in section 6339. The FBI is an exception: the FBI Director may let a Bureau employee join a Justice Department leave bank if the Director decides it will not harm the protection of intelligence sources and methods. Allows the leader of an excepted agency to make a voluntary leave bank by regulation. In that program, employees can give unused annual leave to a leave bank and other employees can get extra leave for medical emergencies. The program should, as far as possible and without risking intelligence protections, follow the same rules as other leave bank programs. The Office of Personnel Management must give advice and help if the agency head asks.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §6372

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)For the purpose of this section—
(1)the term “excepted agency” has the same meaning as such term is defined under section 6339(a)(1) of this title; and
(2)the term “head of an excepted agency” has the same meaning as such term is defined under section 6339(a)(2) of this title.
(b)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2) and notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, neither an excepted agency nor any individual employed in or under an excepted agency may be included in a leave bank program established under any of the preceding provisions of this subchapter.
(2)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may authorize an individual employed by the Bureau to participate in a leave bank program administered by the Department of Justice under this subchapter if in the Director’s judgment such participation will not adversely affect the protection of intelligence sources and methods.
(c)(1)The head of an excepted agency may, by regulation, establish a voluntary leave bank program under which annual leave accrued or accumulated by an employee of such agency may be contributed to a leave bank, and any other employee of such agency may receive additional leave from such leave bank because of a medical emergency.
(2)To the extent practicable, and consistent with the protection of intelligence sources and methods (if applicable), each program under this section shall be established in a manner consistent with the provisions of this subchapter applicable to the program.
(d)The Office of Personnel Management shall provide the head of an excepted agency with such advice and assistance as the head of such agency may request in order to carry out the purposes of this section.

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2012—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 112–87 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, neither an excepted agency nor any individual employed in or under an excepted agency may be included in a leave bank program established under any of the preceding provisions of this subchapter.”

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5 U.S.C. § 6372

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102