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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 1376 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 635

Sec. 635. Authority for retirement flexibility for members of the uniformed services

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Chapter 63 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary concerned may modify the years of service required for an eligible member to retire, to greater than or fewer than 20 years of service, in order to facilitate management actions that shape the personnel profile or correct manpower shortages within an occupational specialty or other grouping of members of the uniformed services.
In this section, the term eligible member means a member of the uniformed services working in an occupational specialty or other grouping designated by the Secretary concerned as in need of a management action described in subsection (a). The Secretary concerned shall submit to Congress notice of any proposed modification under subsection (a). The Secretary concerned may not implement a proposed modification under subsection
(a)until one year after the day on which the notice of the modification is submitted to Congress under paragraph (1). The Secretary concerned may only modify the required years of service under subsection
(a)for an eligible member who first becomes a member of a uniformed service on or after the date of the expiration of the one year period described in subsection (c)(2) that is applicable to the occupational specialty or other grouping in which the eligible member works. . The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 63 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 1276. Retirement flexibility: authority to modify years of service required for retirement for particular occupational specialities or other groupings. .
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