PAY OF SENIOR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS WHILE HOSPITALIZED.

SEC. 603. PAY OF SENIOR NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS WHILE HOSPITALIZED. (a) Pay During Hospitalization.— Section 210 of title 37, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection (b): “(b) A noncommissioned officer of an armed force who is hospitalized and who, during or immediately before such hospitalization, completed service as the senior enlisted member of that armed force, shall continue to be entitled, for not more than 180 days while so hospitalized, to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force.”. (b) Clerical Amendments.— (1) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: “§210. Pay of senior enlisted members during terminal leave and while hospitalized”. (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 3 of title 37, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “210. Pay of senior enlisted members during terminal leave and while hospitalized.”.