5 U.S.C. § 8521
Definitions; application
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 8521, Definitions; application, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/427559
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For the purpose of this subchapter—
“Federal service” means active service (not including active duty in a reserve status unless for a continuous period of 180 days or more) in the armed forces or the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration if with respect to that service—
the individual was discharged or released before completing such term of active service—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to authorize the voluntary interservice transfer of officers between the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Armed Forces, to authorize advance payments of pay and allowances to officers of such corps under the the same conditions that apply to advance payments to members of the Armed Forces, and to provide officers of such corps the same unemployment compensation benefits that apply to members of the Armed Forces.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to improve retirement income security under private multiemployer pension plans by strengthening the funding requirements for those plans, to authorize plan preservation measures for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans, and to revise the manner in which the pension plan termination insurance provisions apply to multiemployer plans, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1982House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991
- Hubbard ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016House: 370–58Senate: no recorded tally