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114 STAT. 1654A-230 PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX of Defense regional centers for security studies, together with a detailed justification for the recommended legislation. SEC. 913. CHANGE IN NAME OF ARMED FORCES STAFF COLLEGE TO JOINT FORCES STAFF COLLEGE. (a) CHANGE IN NAME.—The Armed Forces Staff College of the Department of Defense is hereby renamed the "Joint Forces Staff College". (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— Section 2165(b)(3) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking "Armed Forces Staff College" and inserting "Joint Forces Staff College". (c) REFERENCES. — Any reference to the Armed Forces Staff College in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be considered to be a reference to the Joint Forces Staff College. SEC. 914. SPECIAL AUTHORITY FOR ADMINISTRATION OF NAVY FISHER HOUSES. (a) BASE OPERATING SUPPORT.—Section 2493 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection (f): "(f) SPECIAL AUTHORITY FOR NAVY. — The Secretary of the Navy shall provide base operating support for Fisher Houses associated with health care facilities of the Navy. The level of the support shall be equivalent to the base operating support that the Secretary provides for morale, welfare, and recreation category B community activities (as defined in regulations, prescribed by the Secretary, that govern morale, welfare, and recreation activities associated with Navy installations).". (b) SAVINGS PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN NAVY EMPLOYEES.—(1) The Secretary of the Navy may continue to employ, and pay out of appropriated funds, any employee of the Navy in the competitive service who, as of October 17, 1998, was employed by the Navy in a position at a Fisher House administered by the Navy, but only for so long as the employee is continuously employed in that position. (2) After a person vacates a position in which the person was continued to be employed under the authority of paragraph (1), a person employed in that position shall be employed as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the United States and may not be paid for services in that position out of appropriated funds. (3) In this subsection: (A) The term "Fisher House" has the meaning given the term in section 2493(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code. (B) The term "competitive service" has the meaning given the term in section 2102 of title 5, United States Code. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE. —(1) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall be effective as of October 17, 1998, as if included in section 2493 of title 10, United States Code, as enacted by section 906(a) of Public Law 105-261. (2) Subsection (b) applies with respect to the pay period that includes October 17, 1998, and subsequent pay periods.