AMENDMENTS TO RESERVE OFFICER PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT ACT PROVISIONS.

SEC. 544. AMENDMENTS TO RESERVE OFFICER PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT ACT PROVISIONS. (a) Service Requirement for Retirement in Highest Grade Held.— Section 1370(d) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking out “(A)”; (3) by redesignating paragraph (2)(B) as paragraph (3); and (4) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated— (A) by designating the first sentence as subparagraph (A); (B) by designating the second sentence as subparagraph (B); (C) in subparagraph (B), as so redesignated, by striking out “the preceding sentence” and inserting in lieu thereof “subparagraph (A)”; and (D) by adding at the end the following: “(C) If a person covered by subparagraph (A) has completed at least six months of satisfactory service in grade, the person 110 STAT. 2523was serving in that grade while serving in a position of adjutant general required under section 314 of title 32 or while serving in a position of assistant adjutant general subordinate to such a position of adjutant general, and the person has failed to complete three years of service in that grade solely because the person’s appointment to such position has been terminated or vacated as described in section 324(b) of such title, then such person may be credited with satisfactory service in that grade, notwithstanding the failure to complete three years of service in that grade. “(D) To the extent authorized by the Secretary of the military department concerned, a person who, after having been recommended for promotion in a report of a promotion board but before being promoted to the recommended grade, served in a position for which that grade is the minimum authorized grade may be credited for purposes of subparagraph (A) as having served in that grade for the period for which the person served in that position while in the next lower grade. The period credited may not include any period before the date on which the Senate provides advice and consent for the appointment of that person in the recommended grade. “(E) To the extent authorized by the Secretary of the military department concerned, a person who, after having been extended temporary Federal recognition as a reserve officer of the Army National Guard in a particular grade under section 308 of title 32 or temporary Federal recognition as a reserve officer of the Air National Guard in a particular grade under such section, served in a position for which that grade is the minimum authorized grade may be credited for purposes of subparagraph (A) as having served in that grade for the period for which the person served in that position while extended the temporary Federal recognition, but only if the person was subsequently extended permanent Federal recognition as a reserve officer in that grade and also served in that position after being extended the permanent Federal recognition.”. (b) Exception to Requirement for Retention of Reserve Officers Until Completion of Required Service.— Section 12645(b)(2) of such title is amended by inserting “or a reserve active-status list” after “active-duty list”. (c) Technical Correction.— Section 14314(b)(2)(B) of such title is amended by striking out “of the Air Force”.