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[CITE: 10USC1056]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 53--MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS
 
Sec. 1056. Relocation assistance programs

    (a) Requirement to Provide Assistance.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall carry out a program to provide relocation assistance to members of 
the armed forces and their families as provided in this section. In 
addition, the Secretary of Defense shall make every effort, consistent 
with readiness objectives, to stabilize and lengthen tours of duty to 
minimize the adverse effects of relocation.
    (b) Types of Assistance.--(1) The Secretary of each military 
department, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, 
shall provide relocation assistance, through military relocation 
assistance programs described in subsection (c), to members of the armed 
forces who are ordered to make a change of permanent station which 
includes a move to a new location (and for dependents of such members 
who are authorized to move in connection with the change of permanent 
station).
    (2) The relocation assistance provided shall include the following:
        (A) Provision of destination area information and preparation 
    (to be provided before the change of permanent station takes 
    effect), with emphasis on information with regard to moving costs, 
    housing costs and availability, child care, spouse employment 
    opportunities, cultural adaptation, and community orientation.
        (B) Provision of counseling about financial management, home 
    buying and selling, renting, stress management aimed at intervention 
    and prevention of abuse, property management, and shipment and 
    storage of household goods (including motor vehicles and pets).
        (C) Provision of settling-in services, with emphasis on 
    available government living quarters, private housing, child care, 
    spouse employment assistance information, cultural adaptation, and 
    community orientation.
        (D) Provision of home finding services, with emphasis on 
    services for locating adequate, affordable temporary and permanent 
    housing.

    (c) Military Relocation Assistance Programs.--(1) The Secretary 
shall provide for the establishment of military relocation assistance 
programs to provide the relocation assistance described in subsection 
(b). The Secretary shall establish such a program in each geographic 
area in which at least 500 members of the armed forces are assigned to 
or serving at a military installation. A member who is not stationed 
within a geographic area that contains such a program shall be given 
access to such a program. The Secretary shall ensure that persons on the 
staff of each program are trained in the techniques and delivery of 
professional relocation assistance.
    (2) The Secretary shall ensure that, not later than September 30, 
1991, information available through each military relocation assistance 
program shall be managed through a computerized information system that 
can interact with all other military relocation assistance programs of 
the military departments, including programs located outside the 
continental United States.
    (3) Duties of each military relocation assistance program shall 
include assisting personnel offices on the military installation in 
using the computerized information available through the program to help 
provide members of the armed forces who are deciding whether to reenlist 
information on locations of possible future duty assignments.
    (d) Director.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish the position 
of Director of Military Relocation Assistance Programs in the office of 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management and Personnel). The 
Director shall oversee development and implementation of the military 
relocation assistance programs under this section.
    (e) Regulations.--This section shall be administered under 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
    (f) Inapplicability to Coast Guard.--This section does not apply to 
the Coast Guard.

(Added Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1481(c)(1), Nov. 5, 
1990, 104 Stat. 1705; amended Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title IX, 
Sec. 903(d), title X, Sec. 1062(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 402, 443; 
Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title IX, Sec. 901, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 
2617.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. 
L. 101-189, div. A, title VI, Sec. 661(a)-(g), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 
1463, which was set out as a note under section 113 of this title, prior 
to repeal by Pub. L. 101-510, Sec. 1481(c)(3).


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 903(a), (d), which directed 
repeal of subsec. (d), eff. Jan. 31, 1997, was repealed by Pub. L. 104-
201.
    Subsecs. (f), (g). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 1062(a), redesignated 
subsec. (g) as (f) and struck out former subsec. (f) which read as 
follows: ``Annual Report.--Not later than March 1 each year, the 
Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of Military Relocation 
Assistance Programs, shall submit to Congress a report on the program 
under this section and on military family relocation matters. The report 
shall include the following:
        ``(1) An assessment of available, affordable private-sector 
    housing for members of the armed forces and their families.
        ``(2) An assessment of the actual nonreimbursed costs incurred 
    by members of the armed forces and their families who are ordered to 
    make a change of permanent station.
        ``(3) Information (shown by military installation) on the types 
    of locations at which members of the armed forces assigned to duty 
    at military installations live, including the number of members of 
    the armed forces who live on a military installation and the number 
    who do not live on a military installation.
        ``(4) Information on the effects of the relocation assistance 
    programs established under this section on the quality of life of 
    members of the armed forces and their families and on retention and 
    productivity of members of the armed forces.''


            Implementation of Relocation Assistance Programs

    Section 1481(c)(4) of Pub. L. 101-510 provided that: ``The program 
required to be carried out by section 1056 of title 10, United States 
Code, as added by paragraph (1), shall be established by the Secretary 
of Defense not later than October 1, 1990. The Secretary shall prescribe 
regulations to implement that section not later than July 1, 1990.''
