Sec. 504. Updating warrant officer selection and promotion authority
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Section 573 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: Upon the request of a warrant officer, the Secretary of the military department with jurisdiction over the officer may exclude the officer from consideration by a selection board convened under this section to consider warrant officers for promotion to the next higher grade. The Secretary concerned may approve a request of a warrant officer under paragraph
(1)only if— the basis for the request is to allow the officer to complete a deepening assignment in support of career progression, advanced education, another assignment of significant value to the Department of Defense, or a career progression requirement delayed by an assignment or education; it is determined the exclusion from consideration is in the best interest of the military department concerned; and the officer has not previously failed of selection for promotion to the grade for which the officer requests the exclusion from consideration. . Section 577 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the period at the end of the second sentence and inserting , or a warrant officer excluded under section 573(g) of this title. . Section 575 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: In selecting the warrant officers to be recommended for promotion, a selection board may, when authorized by the Secretary concerned, recommend warrant officers of particular merit, from among those warrant officers selected for promotion, to be placed higher on the promotion list contained in the board’s report under section 576(c) of this title. A warrant officer may be recommended to be placed higher on a promotion list under paragraph
(1)only if the warrant officer receives the recommendation of at least a majority of the members of the board, unless the Secretary concerned establishes an alternative requirement. Any such alternate requirement shall be furnished to the board as part of the guidelines furnished to the board under section 576 of this title. For the warrant officers recommended to be placed higher on a promotion list under paragraph (1), the board shall recommend the order in which those warrant officers should be placed on the list. . Section 576(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: A selection board convened under section 573(a) of this title shall, when authorized under section 575(e) of this title, include in its report to the Secretary concerned the names of those warrant officers recommended by the board to be placed higher on the promotion list and the order in which those officers should be placed on the list. The names of all other warrant officers recommended for promotion under this section shall be arranged in the board’s report in the order of seniority on the warrant officer active-duty list. . Section 578(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— by striking , in the order of the seniority of such officers on the warrant officer active-duty list ; and by adding at the end the following new sentence: Warrant officers of particular merit who were recommended by the board to be placed higher on the promotion list under section 576(c) of this title shall be listed first and, amongst themselves, in the order recommended by the board, followed by the other warrant officers approved for promotion in order of the seniority of such officers on the warrant officer active-duty list. .