GUARD AND RESERVE TECHNICIANS.

SEC. 1214. GUARD AND RESERVE TECHNICIANS. Section 10216 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 413, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (a), (b), and (c) as subsections (b), (c), and (d), respectively; (2) by inserting after the section heading the following new subsection (a): “(a) In General.— Military technicians are Federal civilian employees hired under title 5 and title 32 who are required to maintain dual-status as drilling reserve component members as a condition of their Federal civilian employment. Such employees shall be authorized and accounted for as a separate category of dual-status civilian employees, exempt as specified in subsection (b)(3) from any general or regulatory requirement for adjustments in Department of Defense civilian personnel.”; and (3) in paragraph (3) of subsection (b), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by striking out “in high-priority units and organizations specified in paragraph (1)”.