SCOPE OF CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS.

SEC. 545. SCOPE OF CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS. (a) Payment of Claims Arising From Correction.— subsection (c) of section 1552 of title 10, United States Code, is amended in the first sentence by inserting before the period the following: “, or on account of his or another’s service as a civilian employee”. (b) Definition of Military Record.— Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(g) In this section, the term ‘military record’ means a document or other record that pertains to (1) an individual member or former member of the armed forces, or (2) at the discretion of the Secretary of the military department concerned, any other military matter affecting a member or former member of the armed forces, an employee or former employee of that military department, or a dependent or current or former spouse of any such person. Such term does not include records pertaining to civilian employment matters (such as matters covered by title 5 and chapters 81, 83, 87, 108, 373, 605, 607, 643, and 873 of this title).”. (c) Report.— The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress, not later than March 31, 1999, a report on the effect of the six-year bar to retroactive benefits contained in section 3702 of title 31, United States Code, and the Secretary’s recommendation as to whether it is appropriate for the Secretaries of the military departments to have authority to waive that limitation in selected cases involving implementation of decisions of the Secretary of a military department under chapter 79 of title 10, United States Code. The report shall be prepared in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments.112 STAT. 2023