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[CITE: 10USC1792]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
      CHAPTER 88--MILITARY FAMILY PROGRAMS AND MILITARY CHILD CARE
 
                   SUBCHAPTER II--MILITARY CHILD CARE
 
Sec. 1792. Child care employees

    (a) Required Training.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations implementing a training program for child care employees. 
Those regulations shall apply uniformly among the military departments. 
Subject to paragraph (2), satisfactory completion of the training 
program shall be a condition of employment of any person as a child care 
employee.
    (2) Under those regulations, the Secretary shall require that each 
child care employee complete the training program not later than six 
months after the date on which the employee is employed as a child care 
employee.
    (3) The training program established under this subsection shall 
cover, at a minimum, training in the following:
        (A) Early childhood development.
        (B) Activities and disciplinary techniques appropriate to 
    children of different ages.
        (C) Child abuse prevention and detection.
        (D) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other emergency medical 
    procedures.

    (b) Training and Curriculum Specialists.--(1) The Secretary of 
Defense shall require that at least one employee at each military child 
development center be a specialist in training and curriculum 
development. The Secretary shall ensure that such employees have 
appropriate credentials and experience.
    (2) The duties of such employees shall include the following:
        (A) Special teaching activities at the center.
        (B) Daily oversight and instruction of other child care 
    employees at the center.
        (C) Daily assistance in the preparation of lesson plans.
        (D) Assistance in the center's child abuse prevention and 
    detection program.
        (E) Advising the director of the center on the performance of 
    other child care employees.

    (3) Each employee referred to in paragraph (1) shall be an employee 
in a competitive service position.
    (c) Competitive Rates of Pay.--For the purpose of providing military 
child development centers with a qualified and stable civilian 
workforce, employees at a military installation who are directly 
involved in providing child care and are paid from nonappropriated 
funds--
        (1) in the case of entry-level employees, shall be paid at rates 
    of pay competitive with the rates of pay paid to other entry-level 
    employees at that installation who are drawn from the same labor 
    pool; and
        (2) in the case of other employees, shall be paid at rates of 
    pay substantially equivalent to the rates of pay paid to other 
    employees at that installation with similar training, seniority, and 
    experience.

    (d) Competitive Service Position Defined.--In this section, the term 
``competitive service position'' means a position in the competitive 
service, as defined in section 2102(a)(1) of title 5.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, Sec. 568(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 332; amended Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1073(a)(34), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1902; Pub. L. 105-261, div. 
A, title XI, Sec. 1106, Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2142.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 105-261 redesignated subsec. (e) as 
(d) and struck out former subsec. (d) which read as follows:
    ``(d) Employment Preference Program for Military Spouses.--(1) The 
Secretary of Defense shall conduct a program under which qualified 
spouses of members of the armed forces shall be given a preference in 
hiring for the position of child care employee in a position paid from 
nonappropriated funds if the spouse is among persons determined to be 
best qualified for the position.
    ``(2) A spouse who is provided a preference under this subsection at 
a military child development center may not be precluded from obtaining 
another preference, in accordance with section 1784 of this title, in 
the same geographic area as the military child development center.''
    1997--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1073(a)(34)(A), struck 
out comma after ``implementing''.
    Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1073(a)(34)(B), substituted 
``section 1784'' for ``section 1794''.
