[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2798 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2798

To require a proposal for a pay table for commissioned officers of the 
 Armed Forces using steps in grade based on time in grade rather than 
                            time in service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2018

  Mr. Rounds introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a proposal for a pay table for commissioned officers of the 
 Armed Forces using steps in grade based on time in grade rather than 
                            time in service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Officer Personnel Pay Reform 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPOSAL FOR PAY TABLE FOR COMMISSIONED 
              OFFICERS OF THE ARMED FORCES USING STEPS IN GRADE BASED 
              ON TIME IN GRADE RATHER THAN TIME IN SERVICE.

    (a) Proposal Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees a report setting forth a proposal for 
a pay table for commissioned officers of the Armed Forces that uses 
steps in grade for each pay grade based on time of service within such 
pay grade rather than on time of service in the Armed Forces as a 
whole.
    (b) Comptroller General Assessment.--Not later than March 1, 2019, 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees a report setting forth an assessment 
by the Comptroller General of the proposed pay table required pursuant 
to subsection (a), including an assessment of the effects of using the 
proposed pay table, rather than the current pay table for commissioned 
officers of the Armed Forces, on recruitment and retention of 
commissioned officers of the Armed Forces as a whole and on recruitment 
and retention of commissioned officers of the Armed Forces with 
particular sets of skills (including cyber and other technical skills).
    (c) Congressional Defense Committees Defined.--In this section, the 
term ``congressional defense committees'' has the meaning given that 
term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.
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