TEMPORARY ENHANCEMENT OF CARRYOVER OF ACCUMULATED LEAVE FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.

SEC. 551. TEMPORARY ENHANCEMENT OF CARRYOVER OF ACCUMULATED LEAVE FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.(a) Temporary Increase in Accumulated Leave Carryover Amount.—Section 701 of title 10, United States Code, is amended—(1) in subsection (b), by striking “subsection (f) and subsection (g)” and inserting “subsections (d), (f), and (g)”; and(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:“(d) Notwithstanding subsection (b), during the period beginning on October 1, 2008, through December 31, 2010, a member may accumulate up to 75 days of leave.”.(b) Conforming Amendments Related to High Deployment Members.—Subsection (f) of such section is amended—(1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking “any accumulated leave in excess of 60 days at the end of the fiscal year” and inserting “at the end of the fiscal year any accumulated leave in excess of the number of days of leave authorized to be accumulated under subsection (b) or (d)”;(2) in paragraph (1)(C)—(A) by striking “60 days” and inserting “the days of leave authorized to be accumulated under subsection (b) or (d) that are”; and(B) by inserting “(or fourth fiscal year, if accumulated while subsection (d) is in effect)” after “third fiscal year”; and(3) in paragraph (2), by striking “except for this paragraph—” and all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting “except for this paragraph, would lose at the end of that fiscal year any accumulated leave in excess of the number of days of leave authorized to be accumulated under subsection (b) or (d), shall be permitted to retain such leave until the end of the second fiscal year after the fiscal year in which such service on active duty is terminated.”.(c) Conforming Amendment Related to Members in Missing Status.—Subsection (g) of such section is amended by striking “60-day limitation in subsection (b) and the 90-day limitation in subsection (f)” and inserting “limitations in subsections (b), (d), and (f)”.(d) Pay.—Section 501(b) of title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:“(6) An enlisted member of the armed forces who would lose accumulated leave in excess of 120 days of leave under section 701(f)(1) of title 10 may elect to be paid in cash or by a check on the Treasurer of the United States for any leave in excess so accumulated for up to 30 days of such leave. A member may make an election under this paragraph only once.”.