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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 3304 (Enrolled) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 523

Sec. 523. Establishment and use of consistent definition of gender-neutral occupational standard for military career designators

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Section 543 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 ( Public Law 103–160 ; 10 U.S.C. 113 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: In this section: The term gender-neutral occupational standard , with respect to a military career designator, means that all members of the Armed Forces serving in or assigned to the military career designator must meet the same performance outcome-based standards for the successful accomplishment of the necessary and required specific tasks associated with the qualifications and duties performed while serving in or assigned to the military career designator.
The term military career designator refers to— in the case of enlisted members and warrant officers of the Armed Forces, military occupational specialties, specialty codes, enlisted designators, enlisted classification codes, additional skill identifiers, and special qualification identifiers; and in the case of commissioned officers (other than commissioned warrant officers), officer areas of concentration, occupational specialties, specialty codes, additional skill identifiers, and special qualification identifiers. .
Such section is further amended— in subsection (a)— in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking military occupational career field and inserting military career designator ; and in paragraph (1), by striking common, relevant performance standards and inserting an occupational standard ; in subsection (b)— in paragraph (1)— by striking any military occupational specialty and inserting any military career designator ; and by striking requirements for members in that specialty and shall ensure (in the case of an occupational specialty and inserting requirements as part of the gender-neutral occupational standard for members in that career designator and shall ensure (in the case of a career designator ; and in paragraph (2)— by striking an occupational specialty and inserting a military career designator ; by striking that occupational specialty and inserting that military career designator ; and by striking that specialty and inserting that military career designator ; and in subsection (c)— by striking the occupational standards for a military occupational field and inserting the gender-neutral occupational standard for a military career designator ; and by striking that occupational field and inserting that military career designator .
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