AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND OFFICER PERSONNEL LAWS DURING WAR OR NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

SEC. 1622. AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND OFFICER PERSONNEL LAWS DURING WAR OR NATIONAL EMERGENCY. (a) Authority.— Section 123 is amended to read as follows: “§ 123. Authority to suspend officer personnel laws during war or national emergency “(a) In time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after November 30, 1980, the President may suspend the operation of any provision of law relating to the promotion, involuntary retirement, or separation of commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard Reserve. So long as such war or national emergency continues, any such suspension may be extended by the President. “(b) Any such suspension shaft, if not sooner ended, end on the last day of the two-year period beginning on the date on which the suspension (or the last extension thereof) takes effect or on the last day of the one-year period beginning on the date of the termination of the war or national emergency, whichever occurs first. With respect to the end of any such suspension, the preceding sentence supersedes the provisions of title II of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1621–1622) which provide that powers or authorities exercised by reason of a national emergency snail cease to be exercised after the date of the termination of the emergency. “(c) If a provision of law pertaining to the promotion of reserve officers is suspended under this section and if the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress proposed legislation to adjust the grades and dates of rank of reserve commissioned officers other than commissioned warrant officers, such proposed legislation shall, so far as practicable, be the same as that recommended for adjusting the grades and dates of rank of officers of the regular component of the armed force concerned”. (b) Conforming Repeal.— Section 644 is repealed.