Sec. 521. Authority to permit members who participate in the guaranteed re-
serve forces duty scholarship program to participate in the 
health professions scholarship program and serve on active 
duty. 
Sec. 522. Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps instruction eligibility expan-
sion. 
Sec. 523. Authority for United States Military Academy and United States Air 
Force Academy permanent military professors to assume com-
mand positions while on periods of sabbatical. 
Sec. 524. Expansion of service academy exchange programs with foreign mili-
tary academies. 
Sec. 525. Review of legal status of Junior ROTC program. 
Sec. 526. Special operations fellowships. 
Subtitle D—General Service Authorities 
Sec. 531. Test of utility of test preparation guides and education programs in 
enhancing recruit candidate performance on the Armed Serv-
ices Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and Armed Forces 
Qualification Test (AFQT). 
Sec. 532. Nondisclosure of selection board proceedings. 
Sec. 533. Report on extent of provision of timely notice of long-term deploy-
ments. 
Sec. 534. Report on using six-month deployments for Operation Enduring 
Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
Subtitle E—Authorities Relating to Guard and Reserve Duty 
Sec. 541. Title 10 definition of Active Guard and Reserve duty. 
Sec. 542. Authority for Active Guard and Reserve duties to include support of 
operational missions assigned to the reserve components and 
instruction and training of active-duty personnel. 
Sec. 543. Governor’s authority to order members to Active Guard and Reserve 
duty. 
Sec. 544. National Guard officers authority to command. 
Sec. 545. Expansion of operations of civil support teams. 
Subtitle F—Decorations and Awards 
Sec. 551. Authority for presentation of Medal of Honor Flag to living Medal 
of Honor recipients and to living primary next-of-kin of de-
ceased Medal of Honor recipients. 
Sec. 552. Cold War Victory Medal. 
Sec. 553. Posthumous award of Purple Heart for prisoners of war who die in 
or due to captivity. 
Sec. 554. Advancement on the retired list of certain decorated retired Navy and 
Marine Corps officers. 
Sec. 555. Report on Department of Defense process for awarding decorations. 
Subtitle G—Matters Relating to Casualties 
Sec. 561. Criteria for removal of member from temporary disability retired list. 
Sec. 562. Department of Defense computer/electronic accommodations program 
for severely wounded members. 
Sec. 563. Transportation of remains of casualties dying in a theater of combat 
operations.
Sec. 564. Annual budget display of funds for POW/MIA activities of Depart-
ment of Defense. 
Subtitle H—Assistance to Local Educational Agencies for Defense 
Dependents Education 
Sec. 571. Continuation of authority to assist local educational agencies that 
benefit dependents of members of the Armed Forces and De-
partment of Defense civilian employees. 
Sec. 572. Enrollment in defense dependents’ education system of dependents of 
foreign military members assigned to Supreme Headquarters 
Allied Powers, Europe. 
Subtitle I—Postal Benefits 
Sec. 575. Postal benefits program for members of the Armed Forces. 
Sec. 576. Funding. 
Sec. 577. Duration. 
Subtitle J—Other Matters 
Sec. 581. Reduction in Department of Defense accrual contributions to Depart-
ment of Defense Military Retirement Fund. 
Sec. 582. Dental Corps of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 
Sec. 583. Permanent authority for presentation of recognition items for recruit-
ment and retention purposes. 
Sec. 584. Report on feasibility of establishment of Military Entrance Processing 
Command station on Guam. 
Sec. 585. Persons authorized to administer enlistment and appointment oaths. 
Sec. 586. Repeal of requirement for periodic Department of Defense Inspector 
General assessments of voting assistance compliance at military 
installations. 
Sec. 587. Physical evaluation boards. 
Sec. 588. Department of Labor transitional assistance program. 
Sec. 589. Revision in Government contributions to Medicare-Eligible Retiree 
Health Care Fund. 
Sec. 590. Military chaplains. 
Sec. 591. Report on personnel requirements for airborne assets identified as 
Low-Density, High-Demand Airborne Assets. 
Sec. 592. Entrepreneurial Service Members Empowerment Task Force. 
Sec. 593. Comptroller General report on military conscientious objectors. 
Sec. 594. Commission on the National Guard and Reserves. 
Sec. 595. Inclusion in annual Department of Defense report on sexual assaults 
of information on results of disciplinary actions. 
TITLE VI—COMPENSATION AND OTHER PERSONNEL BENEFITS 
Subtitle A—Pay and Allowances 
Sec. 601. Increase in basic pay for fiscal year 2007. 
Sec. 602. Targeted increase in basic pay rates. 
Sec. 603. Conforming change in general and flag officer pay cap to reflect in-
crease in pay cap for Senior Executive Service personnel. 
Sec. 604. Availability of second basic allowance for housing for certain reserve 
component or retired members serving in support of contin-
gency operations.
Sec. 605. Extension of temporary continuation of housing allowance for depend-
ents of members dying on active duty to spouses who are also 
members. 
Sec. 606. Clarification of effective date of prohibition on compensation for cor-
respondence courses. 
Sec. 607. Payment of full premium for coverage under Servicemembers’ Group 
Life Insurance program during service in Operation Enduring 
Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
Subtitle B—Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays 
Sec. 611. Extension of certain bonus and special pay authorities for reserve 
forces. 
Sec. 612. Extension of bonus and special pay authorities for health care profes-
sionals. 
Sec. 613. Extension of special pay and bonus authorities for nuclear officers. 
Sec. 614. Extension of other bonus, special pay, and separation pay authorities. 
Sec. 615. Expansion of eligibility of dental officers for additional special pay. 
Sec. 616. Increase in maximum annual rate of special pay for Selected Reserve 
health care professionals in critically short wartime specialties. 
Sec. 617. Authority to provide lump sum payment of nuclear officer incentive 
pay. 
Sec. 618. Increase in maximum amount of nuclear career accession bonus. 
Sec. 619. Increase in maximum amount of incentive bonus for transfer between 
armed forces. 
Sec. 620. Clarification regarding members of the Army eligible for bonus for re-
ferring other persons for enlistment in the Army. 
Sec. 621. Pilot program for recruitment bonus for critical health care special-
ties. 
Sec. 622. Enhancement of temporary program of voluntary separation pay and 
benefits. 
Sec. 623. Additional authorities and incentives to encourage retired members 
and reserve component members to volunteer to serve on active 
duty in high-demand, low-density assignments. 
Sec. 624. Elimination of inequity in eligibility and provision of assignment in-
centive pay. 
Subtitle C—Travel and Transportation Allowances 
Sec. 631. Authority to pay costs associated with delivery of motor vehicle to 
storage location selected by member and subsequent removal of 
vehicle. 
Sec. 632. Transportation of additional motor vehicle of members on change of 
permanent station to or from nonforeign areas outside the con-
tinental United States. 
Sec. 633. Travel and transportation allowances for transportation of family 
members incident to illness or injury of members. 
Subtitle D—Retired Pay and Survivor Benefits 
Sec. 641. Military Survivor Benefit Plan beneficiaries under insurable interest 
coverage. 
Sec. 642. Retroactive payment of additional death gratuity for certain members 
not previously covered. 
Sec. 643. Equity in computation of disability retired pay for reserve component 
members wounded in action.
Sec. 644. Study on retention of members of the Armed Forces within special 
operations command. 
Sec. 645. Sense of Congress concerning eligibility of certain additional depend-
ent children for annuities under military survivor benefit plan. 
Subtitle E—Commissary and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentality Benefits 
Sec. 651. Treatment of price surcharges of tobacco products and certain other 
merchandise sold at commissary stores. 
Sec. 652. Limitation on use of Department of Defense lease authority to under-
mine commissaries and exchanges and other morale, welfare, 
and recreation programs and nonappropriated fund instrumen-
talities. 
Sec. 653. Use of nonappropriated funds to supplement or replace appropriated 
funds for construction of facilities of exchange stores system 
and other nonappropriated fund instrumentalities, military 
lodging facilities, and community facilities. 
Sec. 654. Report on cost effectiveness of purchasing commercial insurance for 
commissary and exchange facilities and facilities of other mo-
rale, welfare, and recreation programs and nonappropriated 
fund instrumentalities. 
Subtitle F—Other Matters 
Sec. 661. Repeal of annual reporting requirement regarding effects of recruit-
ment and retention initiatives. 
Sec. 662. Pilot project for provision of golf carts accessible for disabled persons 
at military golf courses. 
Sec. 663. Enhanced authority to remit or cancel indebtedness of members of 
the Armed Forces incurred on active duty. 
Sec. 664. Phased recovery of overpayments of pay made to members of the 
Uniformed Services. 
Sec. 665. Sense of Congress calling for payment to World War II veterans who 
survived Bataan Death March. 
TITLE VII—HEALTH CARE PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—TRICARE Program Improvements 
Sec. 701. TRICARE coverage for forensic examination following sexual assault 
or domestic violence. 
Sec. 702. Authorization of anesthesia and other costs for dental care for chil-
dren and certain other patients. 
Sec. 703. Improvements to descriptions of cancer screening. 
Sec. 704. Prohibition on increases in certain health care costs for members of 
the uniformed services. 
Sec. 705. Services of mental health counselors. 
Sec. 706. Demonstration project on coverage of selected over-the-counter medi-
cations under the pharmacy benefit program. 
Sec. 707. Requirement to reimburse certain travel expenses of certain bene-
ficiaries covered by TRICARE for life. 
Sec. 708. Inflation adjustment of differential payments to children’s hospitals 
participating in TRICARE program. 
Sec. 709. Expanded eligibility of Selected Reserve members under TRICARE 
program. 
Sec. 710. Extension to TRICARE of medicare prohibition of financial incen-
tives not to enroll in group health plan.