DATE OF RANK.

SEC. 1626. DATE OF RANK. Section 741(d)(3) is amended— (1) by inserting “or who is transferred from an inactive status to an active status and placed on the active-duty list or the reserve active-status list” after “warrant officer (W–5)”; (2) by inserting “or reserve active-status list” after “active-duty list” the second place it appears; and (3) by adding at the end: “The authority to change the date of rank of a reserve officer who is placed on the active-duty list to a later date does not apply in the case of an officer who (A) has served continuously m the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve since the officer’s last promotion, or (B) is placed on the active-duty list while on a promotion list as described in section 14317(b) of this title.”.