PUBLIC LAW 105-261—OCT. 17, 1998 112 STAT. 2027 "(5) The Secretary of Defense may authorize the Secretary of a military department to reduce the 3-year period required by paragraph (3)(A) to a period not less than 2 years in the case of retirements effective during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this paragraph and ending on September 30, 2001. The number of reserve commissioned officers of an armed force in the same grade for whom a reduction is made during any fiscal year in the period of service-in-grade otherwise required under this paragraph may not exceed the number equal to 2 percent of the strength authorized for that fiscal year for reserve commissioned officers of that armed force in an active status in that grade.". (p) AFFILIATION WITH GUARD AND RESERVE UNITS; WAIVER OF CERTAIN LIMITATIONS.— Section 1150(a) of such title is amended by striking out "during the nine-year period beginning on October 1, 1990" and inserting in lieu thereof "during the period beginning on October 1, 1990, and ending on September 30, 2001". (q) RESERVE MONTGOMERY GI BILL.— Section 16133(b)(1)(B) of such title is amended by striking out "September 30, 1999" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 2001". SEC. 562. LEAVE WITHOUT PAY FOR SUSPENDED ACADEMY CADETS AND MIDSHIPMEN. (a) AUTHORITY. —Section 702 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by designating the second sentence of subsection (b) as subsection (d); (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection (b): "(b) INVOLUNTARY LEAVE WITHOUT PAY FOR SUSPENDED ACADEMY CADETS AND MIDSHIPMEN.—^1) Under regulations prescribed under subsection (d), the Secretary concerned may place an academy cadet or midshipman on involuntary leave for any period during which the Superintendent of the Academy at which the cadet or midshipman is admitted has suspended the cadet or midshipman from duty at the Academy— "(A) pending separation from the Academy; "(B) pending return to the Academy to repeat an academic semester or year; or "(C) for other good cause. "(2) A cadet or midshipman placed on involuntary leave under paragraph (1) is not entitled to any pay under section 230(c) of title 37 for the period of the leave. "(3) Return of an academy cadet or midshipman to a pay status at the Academy concerned from involuntary leave status under paragraph (1) does not restore any entitlement of the cadet or midshipman to pay for the period of the involuntary leave.". (b) DEFINITION. — Such section is further amended— (1) in subsection (c) (as redesignated by subsection (a)(2)), by striking out "cadets at" and all that follows through "Naval Academy," and inserting in lieu thereof "academy cadets or midshipmen"; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(e) DEFINITION. —In this section, the term 'academy cadet or midshipman' means— "(1) a cadet of the United States Military Academy;
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