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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Amendments Act of 2020

116th Congress · Approved Dec 23, 2020 · 134 Stat. 1153 · Lineage

An Act

To reauthorize and amend the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Act of 2002, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. Short Title; Table of Contents.

(a)
Short Title.— This Act may be cited as the “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Amendments Act of 2020”.
(b)
Table of Contents.— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. References to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Act of 2002.

TITLE I— GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 101. Strength and distribution in grade.

Sec. 102. Recalled officers.

Sec. 103. Obligated service requirement.

Sec. 104. Training and physical fitness.

Sec. 105. Aviation accession training programs.

Sec. 106. Recruiting materials.

Sec. 107. Technical correction.

TITLE II— PARITY AND RECRUITMENT

Sec. 201. Education loans.

Sec. 202. Interest payments.

Sec. 203. Student pre-commissioning program.

Sec. 204. Limitation on educational assistance.

Sec. 205. Applicability of certain provisions of title 10, United States Code, and extension of certain authorities applicable to members of the Armed Forces to commissioned officer corps.

Sec. 206. Applicability of certain provisions of title 37, United States Code.

Sec. 207. Prohibition on retaliatory personnel actions.

Sec. 208. Employment and reemployment rights.

Sec. 209. Treatment of commission in commissioned officer corps for purposes of certain hiring decisions.

TITLE III— APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTION OF OFFICERS

Sec. 301. Appointments.

Sec. 302. Personnel boards.

Sec. 303. Positions of importance and responsibility.

Sec. 304. Temporary appointments.

Sec. 305. Officer candidates.

Sec. 306. Procurement of personnel.

Sec. 307. Career intermission program.

TITLE IV— SEPARATION AND RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS

Sec. 401. Involuntary retirement or separation.

Sec. 402. Separation pay.

TITLE V— OTHER NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION MATTERS

Sec. 501. Charting and survey services.

Sec. 502. Co-location agreements.

Sec. 503. Satellite and data management.

Sec. 504. Improvements relating to sexual harassment and assault prevention at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

SEC. 2. References to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Act of 2002.

Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Act of 2002 (33 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.).