S.Amdt. 2481

SA 2481. Mr. WYDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike section 521 and insert the following:

SEC. 521. DATE OF RANK OF COMMISSIONED NATIONAL GUARD
OFFICERS PROMOTED TO A HIGHER GRADE.

(a) In General.--Section 14308(f) of title 10, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The effective date'';
(2) in paragraph (1), as designated by paragraph (1) of
this subsection, by striking ``on which such Federal
recognition in that grade is so extended'' and inserting ``of
the approval of the promotion of the officer to that grade by
the State concerned''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2)(A) Notwithstanding subsection (c)(1), the date of
rank in a higher grade of an officer whose effective date of
promotion to such grade is governed by paragraph (1) shall be
such effective date of promotion.
``(B) The specification of the date of rank of an officer
in a grade pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be deemed an
adjustment of the date of rank of the officer to that grade
in the manner of section 741(d)(4) of this title, pursuant to
subsection (c)(2), to which section 741(d)(4)(C) of this
title shall apply, notwithstanding subsection (c)(3).''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a)
shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act,
and shall apply with respect to National Guard officers whose
promotion receive Federal recognition after that date,
regardless of whether such promotion was approved by the
State concerned before that date.
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