To treat the service of recipients of Boren scholarships and fellowships in excepted service positions as service by such recipients under career appointments for purposes of career tenure under title 5, United States Code.

SA 660. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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:

At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title XVI,
insert the following:

SEC. ___. CONSIDERATION OF SERVICE BY RECIPIENTS OF BOREN
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN EXCEPTED
SERVICE POSITIONS AS SERVICE BY SUCH RECIPIENTS
UNDER CAREER APPOINTMENTS FOR PURPOSES OF
CAREER TENURE.

Section 802(k) of the David L. Boren National Security
Education Act of 1991 (50 U.S.C. 1902(k)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
(2) in paragraph (2), in the matter before subparagraph
(A), by striking ``(3)(C)'' and inserting ``(4)(C)''; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
``(3) Career tenure.--In the case of an individual whose
appointment to a position in the excepted service is
converted to a career or career- conditional appointment
under paragraph (1)(B), the period of service described in
such paragraph shall be treated, for purposes of the service
requirements for career tenure under title 5, United States
Code, as if it were service in a position under a career or
career- conditional appointment.''.
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