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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3553 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3553

 To provide a retroactive effective date for the promotions of senior 
officers of the Armed Forces whose military promotions were delayed as 
 a result of the suspension of Senate confirmation of such promotions.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 14, 2023

    Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. King, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. 
   Klobuchar, Ms. Ernst, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Tuberville, Ms. Smith, Mrs. 
 Gillibrand, Mr. Warner, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Menendez, Mr. 
    Budd, Mr. Ossoff, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Ricketts, Ms. 
    Baldwin, Ms. Collins, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Graham, Mr. Warnock, Mr. 
  Barrasso, Mr. Kelly, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
 Schatz, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Schmitt, Mr. Lee, 
  Mr. Romney, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Boozman, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
Tillis, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Daines, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Scott of 
   Florida, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Brown, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Van 
 Hollen, Mr. Fetterman, and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL

 
 To provide a retroactive effective date for the promotions of senior 
officers of the Armed Forces whose military promotions were delayed as 
 a result of the suspension of Senate confirmation of such promotions.

    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 ``Military Personnel Confirmation 
Restoration Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    Congress holds the men and women who defend the United States in 
the highest esteem.

SEC. 3. RETROACTIVE EFFECTIVE DATE OF PROMOTIONS OF SENIOR OFFICERS OF 
              ARMED FORCES THAT WERE DELAYED AS A RESULT OF SUSPENSION 
              OF SENATE CONFIRMATION.

    (a) In General.--In the case of an individual confirmed, during the 
period beginning on December 5, 2023, and ending on December 31, 2023, 
to a grade or rank in the Armed Forces associated with pay grade O-7 or 
higher and whose confirmation was delayed as a result of the suspension 
of the provision of advice and consent by the Senate to appointments to 
such grades and ranks that began in February 2023--
            (1) the Secretary of Defense shall provide the individual, 
        retroactive to the date described in subsection (b)--
                    (A) pay and allowances at the rates or in the 
                amounts payable for the pay grade associated with the 
                appointment of the individual; and
                    (B) the benefits to which an individual in the 
                grade or rank associated with the appointment is 
                entitled; and
            (2) the date described in subsection (b) shall be the date 
        used for determining the seniority of the individual in the 
        grade or rank associated with the appointment.
    (b) Date Described.--The date described in this subsection is, with 
respect to an individual described in subsection (a), the date that is 
the later of--
            (1) the date that is 30 days after the date on which the 
        nomination of the individual was placed on the Executive 
        Calendar of the Senate; or
            (2) the date on which the individual would have been 
        appointed but for the suspension of the provision of advice and 
        consent described in subsection (a), as determined by the 
        Secretary concerned (as defined in section 101 of title 10, 
        United States Code).
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