To amend title 10, United States Code, to specify the minimum rank requirement for officer serving as Chief of the Navy Dental Corps to correspond to Army and Air Force requirements for the heads of their dental corps.

Removes the requirement that the person detailed as Chief of the Navy Dental Corps be of a rank not less than rear admiral (lower half) at the time of the detail.

Requires an appointee to such position holding a lower grade to be appointed in the regular grade of rear admiral.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 1533 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1533

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to specify the minimum rank 
 requirement for officer serving as Chief of the Navy Dental Corps to 
 correspond to Army and Air Force requirements for the heads of their 
                             dental corps.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2009

  Mr. Sestak introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to specify the minimum rank 
 requirement for officer serving as Chief of the Navy Dental Corps to 
 correspond to Army and Air Force requirements for the heads of their 
                             dental corps.

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

SECTION 1. MINIMUM RANK REQUIREMENT FOR OFFICER SERVING AS CHIEF OF THE 
              NAVY DENTAL CORPS TO CORRESPOND TO ARMY AND AIR FORCE 
              REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 5138(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``not below the grade of rear admiral 
        (lower half) shall be detailed'' and inserting ``shall be 
        appointed''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``An 
        appointee who holds a lower regular grade shall be appointed in 
        the regular grade of rear admiral.''.
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