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Objective Standards for Officer Promotion Removal
Limits the Secretary of Defense's power to remove an officer from a military promotion list to four specific, documented grounds and bars removals based on an officer's lawful participation in authorized military programs or policies. Creates a new fast-track review process at the Board for Correction of Military Records for officers removed from promotion lists, with a 180-day deadline and authority to order the Secretary to vacate and reconsider the removal decision. Requires the Secretary of Defense to give an officer written advance notice and a chance to submit a written response before finalizing a decision to remove that officer from a military promotion list, and stays the removal during any records-board review.
- Population Scope Low Directly affects only active-duty commissioned officers eligible for promotion — a narrow population well under 1% of Americans.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated; the bill creates procedural and legal constraints with no spending mechanism.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Constrains existing Secretary of Defense (DOD) (SecDef) discretion through procedural mandates — written determinations, advance notice, response opportunity, and a 180-day Board for Correction of Military Records review — without altering the underlying substantive promotion law.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low The bill predominantly imposes mandatory 'shall' obligations on SecDef, narrowing rather than expanding executive discretion by confining removals to four enumerated grounds.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium Creates recurring case-by-case adjudicative load through the expedited Board for Correction of Military Records review track, a congressional-notification duty, and a regulatory implementation requirement within 180 days.
- Temporal Commitment High Amends permanent provisions of title 10 with no sunset or reauthorization requirement, binding future Congresses and administrations indefinitely unless affirmatively repealed.
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Summary
This bill sets strict rules for when the Secretary of Defense (DOD) can remove a military officer from a promotion list after a promotion board has already selected that officer. It requires a written explanation tied to specific reasons such as misconduct, new harmful information, loss of legal qualifications, or national security need, and it bars removals based on an officer's participation in lawful military policies or programs. Officers must receive advance notice and a chance to respond, and they can seek fast review by a records correction board that must finish within 180 days.
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Core Policy Mechanism Top 1
Objective Standards for Officer Promotion Removal
Limits the Secretary of Defense's power to remove an officer from a military promotion list to four specific, documented grounds and bars removals based on an officer's lawful participation in authorized military programs or policies. Creates a new fast-track review process at the Board for Correction of Military Records for officers removed from promotion lists, with a 180-day deadline and authority to order the Secretary to vacate and reconsider the removal decision. Requires the Secretary of Defense to give an officer written advance notice and a chance to submit a written response before finalizing a decision to remove that officer from a military promotion list, and stays the removal during any records-board review.
- Population Scope Low Directly affects only active-duty commissioned officers eligible for promotion — a narrow population well under 1% of Americans.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated; the bill creates procedural and legal constraints with no spending mechanism.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Constrains existing Secretary of Defense (DOD) (SecDef) discretion through procedural mandates — written determinations, advance notice, response opportunity, and a 180-day Board for Correction of Military Records review — without altering the underlying substantive promotion law.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low The bill predominantly imposes mandatory 'shall' obligations on SecDef, narrowing rather than expanding executive discretion by confining removals to four enumerated grounds.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium Creates recurring case-by-case adjudicative load through the expedited Board for Correction of Military Records review track, a congressional-notification duty, and a regulatory implementation requirement within 180 days.
- Temporal Commitment High Amends permanent provisions of title 10 with no sunset or reauthorization requirement, binding future Congresses and administrations indefinitely unless affirmatively repealed.
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Objective Standards for Officer Promotion Removal
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