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  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 10USC6035]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                       CHAPTER 555--ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 6035. Female members: congressional review period for 
        assignment to duty on submarines or for reconfiguration of 
        submarines
        
    (a) No change in the Department of the Navy policy limiting service 
on submarines to males, as in effect on May 10, 2000, may take effect 
until--
        (1) the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress written notice 
    of the proposed change; and
        (2) a period of 30 days of continuous session of Congress 
    (excluding any day on which either House of Congress is not in 
    session) expires following the date on which the notice is received.

    (b) No funds available to the Department of the Navy may be expended 
to reconfigure any existing submarine, or to design any new submarine, 
to accommodate female crew members until--
        (1) the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress written notice 
    of the proposed reconfiguration or design; and
        (2) a period of 30 days of continuous session of Congress 
    (excluding any day on which either House of Congress is not in 
    session) expires following the date on which the notice is received.

    (c) For purposes of this section, the continuity of a session of 
Congress is broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die.

(Added Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, Sec. 573(a)(1)], Oct. 
30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-136.)
