Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part E · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 416. Use of protective equipment or measures by employees
Statutory text
None of the funds made available in this or any other Act for fiscal year 2013 and thereafter may be used to propose or effect a disciplinary or adverse action, with respect to any Department of Homeland Security employee who engages regularly with the public in the performance of his or her official duties solely because that employee elects to utilize protective equipment or measures, including but not limited to surgical masks, N95 respirators, gloves, or hand-sanitizers, where use of such equipment or measures is in accord with Department of Homeland Security policy, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Office of Personnel Management guidance.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
Pub. L. 113–6 div. D title V § 540 · 127 Stat. 198
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 416
(Pub. L. 113–6, div. D, title V, § 540, Mar. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 373.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 113–6, div. D, title V, § 540, Mar. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 373.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 540. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless an agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and has made a determination that this further action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, means div. D of Pub. L. 113–6, , 127 Stat. 342, known as the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2013, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.