[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3355]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2481. Mr. WYDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Strike section 521 and insert the following:

     SEC. 521. DATE OF RANK OF COMMISSIONED NATIONAL GUARD 
                   OFFICERS PROMOTED TO A HIGHER GRADE.

       (a) In General.--Section 14308(f) of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The effective date'';
       (2) in paragraph (1), as designated by paragraph (1) of 
     this subsection, by striking ``on which such Federal 
     recognition in that grade is so extended'' and inserting ``of 
     the approval of the promotion of the officer to that grade by 
     the State concerned''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2)(A) Notwithstanding subsection (c)(1), the date of 
     rank in a higher grade of an officer whose effective date of 
     promotion to such grade is governed by paragraph (1) shall be 
     such effective date of promotion.
       ``(B) The specification of the date of rank of an officer 
     in a grade pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be deemed an 
     adjustment of the date of rank of the officer to that grade 
     in the manner of section 741(d)(4) of this title, pursuant to 
     subsection (c)(2), to which section 741(d)(4)(C) of this 
     title shall apply, notwithstanding subsection (c)(3).''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     and shall apply with respect to National Guard officers whose 
     promotion receive Federal recognition after that date, 
     regardless of whether such promotion was approved by the 
     State concerned before that date.
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