AUTHORIZATION TO EXCEED CEILING ON ACCUMULATION OF LEAVE.

SEC. 638. AUTHORIZATION TO EXCEED CEILING ON ACCUMULATION OF LEAVE.Section 701(f) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting “(1)” after “(f)”; (2) by striking out “Leave” in the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof “Except as provided in paragraph (2), leave”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) Under the uniform regulations referred to in paragraph (1), a member of an armed force who serves on active duty in a duty assignment in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year and who, except for this paragraph— “(A) would lose any accumulated leave in excess of 60 days at the end of that fiscal year, shall be permitted to retain such leave (not to exceed 90 days) until the end of the succeeding fiscal year; or “(B) would lose any accumulated leave in excess of 60 days at the end of the succeeding fiscal year (other than by reason of subparagraph (A)), shall be permitted to retain such leave (not to exceed 90 days) until the end of the next succeeding fiscal year.”.