PERMANENT REDUCTION FROM EIGHT TO SIX IN NUMBER OF YEARS OF RESERVE SERVICE REQUIRED FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY FOR NON-REGULAR SERVICE.

SEC. 631. PERMANENT REDUCTION FROM EIGHT TO SIX IN NUMBER OF YEARS OF RESERVE SERVICE REQUIRED FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIRED PAY FOR NON-REGULAR SERVICE. (a) Reduction in Requirement for Years of Reserve Component Service Before Retired Pay Eligibility.—Subsection (a)(3) of section 12731 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking “eight years” and inserting “six years”; and116 STAT. 2572 (2) by inserting before the semicolon “, except that in the case of a person who completed the service requirements of paragraph (2) before October 5, 1994, the number of years of such qualifying service under this paragraph shall be eight”. (b) Conforming Amendment.—Subsection (f) of such section is repealed. (c) Effective Date.—The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on October 1, 2002. No benefit shall accrue to any person for any period before that date by reason of the enactment of those amendments.