Modification to grade and allowances available to Attending Physician to the Congress

(a) Grade (1) Modification Section 715 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the first two sentences and inserting the following: An officer serving as Attending Physician to the Congress, while so serving, holds the grade of colonel, or in the case of an officer of the Navy, captain.. (2) Conforming amendment Section 525 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (A) by striking subsection (f); and (B) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections (f) and (g), respectively. (b) Allowances Section 302(a)(3) of title 37, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking An officer and inserting (A) Subject to subparagraph (B), an officer; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (B) This paragraph shall not apply to an officer serving as the Attending Physician to the Congress..