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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 2177 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide for parity among the vice chiefs, and for other purposes. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 7 | 7 | | JUNE22, 2023 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. P |
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| 9 | 9 | | ETERSintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 10 | 10 | | to the Committee on Armed Services |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL |
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| 12 | 12 | | To provide for parity among the vice chiefs, and for other |
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| 13 | 13 | | purposes. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Vice Chiefs Parity Act 4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEC. 2. GRADE OF VICE CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD 6 |
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| 20 | 20 | | BUREAU. 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Section 10505 of title 10, United States Code, is 8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | amended by adding at the end the following new sub-9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | section: 10 |
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| 26 | 26 | | •S 2177 IS |
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| 27 | 27 | | ‘‘(c) GRADE ANDEXCLUSIONFROMGENERAL AND 1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | F |
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| 29 | 29 | | LAGOFFICERAUTHORIZEDSTRENGTH.—(1) The Vice 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall be appointed 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | to serve in the grade of general. 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall designate, pursu-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ant to subsection (b) of section 526a of this title, the posi-6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | tion of Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau as one 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | of the general officer and flag officer positions to be ex-8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | cluded from the limitations in subsection (a) of such sec-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tion.’’. 10 |
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