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Ante, p. 380.

70A Stat. 4 1 3; 71 Stat. 385.

70A Stat. 494. Retirement deferment.

70A Stat. 172.

PUBLIC LAW 90-131-NOV. 8, 1967

[81 STAT.

Corps who is serving in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) on the effective date of this Act may not be discharged under that section until June 30 of the second fiscal year following the fiscal year in which this Act is approved. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an officer of the Regular Navy in the Nurse Corps who is serving in the grade of lieutenant on the effective date of this Act and who on that date has completed more than thirteen years of active commissioned service may not be involuntarily discharged under section 6396 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by this Act but shall, unless sooner selected for promotion to the grade of lieutenant commander, be retired on June 30 of the fiscal year in which she completes at least twenty years of active commissioned service. Each officer retired under this subsection shall be retired with the retired grade and pay prescribed in section 6396(c) of title 10, United States Code, as it existed before the enactment of this Act. (e) For five years following the effective date of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force may suspend the operation of any provision of law pertaining to the mandatory retirement, discharge, separation, or transfer from an active status of an Air Force female officer, except an officer designated under section 8067, title 10, United States Code, to perform professional functions other than as an Air Force nurse or as an Air Force medical specialist. (f) Until July 1, 1972, when the needs of the service require, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force may convene annually boards of officers to consider officers of the Army Nurse Corps, officers of the Navy Nurse Corps, or Air Force nurses, respectively, who otherwise would be required to be retired or separated under this Act within the calendar or fiscal year in which the board is convened. Upon the recommendation of such a board, the Secretary concerned may defer the separation or retirement of such an officer for a term of not more than five years, unless recommended for further deferment by a subsequent board of officers, and in any case not beyond the month following her attaining age sixty or July 1, 1976, whichever may be earlier. Officers whose separation or retirement is so deferred shall be additional to the numbers of officers authorized by sections 3202,3211,8202, and 8211, title 10, United States Code. Approved November 8, 1967.

Public Law 90-131 November 8, 1967 [H. R. 12474]

National Aeron a u t i c s and Space Administration Appropriation Act, 1968.

AN ACT Making appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums ar^ appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other purposes, namely:

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