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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 · Sec. 523

Sec. 523. ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF CONSISTENT DEFINITION OF GENDER-NEUTRAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD FOR MILITARY CAREER DESIGNATORS

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## SEC. 523 ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF CONSISTENT DEFINITION OF GENDER-NEUTRAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD FOR MILITARY CAREER DESIGNATORS ###
(a)Establishment of Definitions 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: > > ### “(d) Definitions > > In this section: > > > #### “(1) Gender-neutral occupational standard > > 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. > > > #### “(2) Military career designator > > The term ‘military career designator’ refers to— > > > ##### “(A) > > 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 > > > ##### “(B) > > 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.” > . ###
(b)Use of Definitions Such section is further amended— ####
(1)in subsection (a)— #####
(A)in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “military occupational career field” and inserting “military career designator”; and #####
(B)in paragraph (1), by striking “common, relevant performance standards” and inserting “an occupational standard”; ####
(2)in subsection (b)— #####
(A)in paragraph (1)— ######
(i)by striking “any military occupational specialty” and inserting “any military career designator”; and ######
(ii)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 #####
(B)in paragraph (2)— ######
(i)by striking “an occupational specialty” and inserting “a military career designator”; ######
(ii)by striking “that occupational specialty” and inserting “that military career designator”; and ######
(iii)by striking “that specialty” and inserting “that military career designator”; and ####
(3)in subsection (c)— #####
(A)by striking “the occupational standards for a military occupational field” and inserting “the gender-neutral occupational standard for a military career designator”; and #####
(B)by striking “that occupational field” and inserting “that military career designator”.
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Sec. 523
ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF CONSISTENT DEFINITION OF GENDER-NEUTRAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD FOR MILITARY CAREER DESIGNATORS
Pub. L.Pub. L. 103-160
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