AUTHORITY FOR ORIGINAL REGULAR APPOINTMENTS OF NAVY AND MARINE CORPS LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS SERVING IN GRADES ABOVE PAY GRADE O–3 UNDER TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS.

SEC. 502. AUTHORITY FOR ORIGINAL REGULAR APPOINTMENTS OF NAVY AND MARINE CORPS LIMITED DUTY OFFICERS SERVING IN GRADES ABOVE PAY GRADE O–3 UNDER TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS. Section 5589 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) as subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c): “(c) (1) An officer described in paragraph (2) may be given an original appointment as a regular officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps, as the case may be, in the grade, and with the date of rank in that grade, in which the officer is serving on the day before such original appointment. “(2) This subsection applies to an officer of the Navy and Marine Corps who— “(A) is on the active-duty list; “(B) holds a permanent enlisted or warrant officer grade; “(C) is designated for limited duty under subsection (a) of section 5596 of this title; and 108 STAT. 2749 “(D) is serving in the grade of lieutenant commander or commander, or in the grade of major or lieutenant colonel, under a temporary appointment under subsection (d) of section 5596 of this title.”.