SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT–
(1) IN GENERAL.–here shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.
(2) REQUIREMENT.–All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act 2 of 1923, as amended.
(3) APPOINTMENT.–
Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President
and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(4) ACTIVE DUTY.–Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training.
(5) WARRANT OFFICERS.–Warrant officers may be appointed to the Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service.
(b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO THE REGULAR CORPS.—Effective on the date of enactment of the Affordable Health Choices Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.
[Note here that those personally appointed by BO — without advice and consent of the Senate — automatically become a part of the Regular Corps. Ed.]
(c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.–
(1) PURPOSE.–The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.
(2) USES.–The Ready Reserve Corps shall–
(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;
(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;
(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and
(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 399SS) to improve access to health services.
(d) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to the Office of the Surgeon General for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Funds appropriated under this subsection shall be used for recruitment and training of Commissioned Corps Officers.
Gee, I wnoder how many Black Panthers and Al quada-ites are going to apply?
Oh my freaking God! Why is it that no one else saw this?!?!? This is truly disturbing. Time to load up on the ammo huh?
Note the multiple references to “...national emergencies...” broad enough language to to drive a truck through. People had better get out and vote this November.
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"To meet both routine public health and emergency response missions".
What - exactly - are these other emergency response missions? Why is this deliberately undefined? As written, it means any mission the govenment says.
The Obama/Union/Democrat brownshirts are coming to enforce their new mandates -- along with the 16,500 new IRS agents.
"Controling the people takes time."
Rep. Dingell (D - Michigan)
Ping to an incredible revelation in the healthcare bill.
Please forgive my blatant misuse of our ping list.
Tex
Those Obama logos on the chest and hats will be good targets
Yep....gonna get bloody.
< tinfoil hat>After Obamacare takes effect and all the doctors retire, will Obama declare a medical emergency and force doctors to involuntarily serve this "national emergency?" < /tinfoil hat>
-PJ
Thank you.
Commisssioned officers in the Reserve can be recalled to AD by the Surgeon General? This is horse s—. He may work with Reserve Medical Corps and Medical Service Corps officers, but; combat arms officers do not answer to the clown.
(c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.–
(1) PURPOSE.–The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.
(2) USES.–The Ready Reserve Corps shall–
(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;
(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;
It's easy for dems to stretch" definitions - could be bad...
The Ready Reserve Corps of the US Public Health Service already existed under 42 USC 204.
What’s unusual about the amendment to it is that it converted all Reserve Officers serving on active duty as of the enactment date into Commissioned Officers of the Public Health Service, effectively being appointed as Commissioned Officers by legislative fiat rather than, as the law otherwise requires, appointed by the President with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.
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