PERSONNEL CEILINGS FOR NONCAREER RESEARCH PERSONNEL.

SEC. 222. PERSONNEL CEILINGS FOR NONCAREER RESEARCH PERSONNEL. (a) Exclusion From Personnel Ceilings.— Section 5010(a) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(6) (A) Temporary research personnel of the Department of Medicine and Surgery shall be excluded from any ceiling on full-time equivalent employees of the Veterans’ Administration or any other personnel ceiling otherwise applicable to employees of the Veterans’ Administration. “(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the term ‘temporary research personnel’ means personnel who are employed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery in other than a career appointment for work on a research activity and who are not paid by the Veterans’ Administration or are paid from funds appropriated to the Veterans’ Administration to support such activity.”. (b) Effective Date.— The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to fiscal years after fiscal year 1987.