Sec. 503. Authority of selection boards to recommend officers of particular merit be placed at the top of the promotion list
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Section 616 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection (g): A selection board may recommend an officer of particular merit from among officers recommended for promotion under subsection
(a)to be placed at the top of a promotion list established by the Secretary of the military department concerned under section 624(a)(1) of this title. A selection board may make a recommendation under this subsection only if such recommendation is appropriate in the opinion of a majority of the members of the selection board. A selection board may make recommendations under this subsection for no more than the number equal to 20 percent of the maximum number of officers that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion. If the number determined under this paragraph is less than one, the board may recommend one such officer. A selection board that recommends under this subsection that more than one officer be placed at the top of a promotion list shall recommend the order in which such officers should be promoted. . Section 618(a) of such title is amended— by striking to law or regulation or to guidelines and inserting to law, regulation, or guidelines each place it appears; by inserting or, in the case of a recommendation under section 616(g) of this title, the determination of the Secretary concerned after section 615(b) of this title each place it appears; and in paragraph (2), by striking law, regulation, and such guidelines and inserting law, regulation, such guidelines, and the determination of the Secretary concerned, . Section 624(a)(1) of such title is amended by inserting , subject to section 616(g) of this title after active-duty list .