PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 110 STAT. 273 on military readiness. The report for any quarter shall be based on assessments that are provided during that quarter— "(1) to any council, committee, or other body of the Department of Defense (A) that has responsibility for readiness oversight, and (B) the membership of which includes at least one civilian officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the level of Assistant Secretary of Defense or higher; "(2) by senior civilian and military officers of the military departments and the commanders of the unified and specified commands; and "(3) as part of any regularly established process of periodic readiness reviews for the Department of Defense as a whole. "(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED. — Each such report shall— "(1) specifically describe identified readiness problems or deficiencies and planned remedial actions; and "(2) include the key indicators and other relevant data related to the identified problem or deficiency. "(c) CLASSIFICATION OF REPORTS. —Reports under this section shall be submitted in unclassified form and may, as the Secretary determines necessary, also be submitted in classified form.". (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "452. Quarterly readiness reports.". (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— Section 452 of title 10, United States Code, 10 USC 452 note, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect with the calendaryear quarter during which this Act is enacted. SEC. 362. RESTATEMENT OF REQUIREMENT FOR SEMIANNUAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON TRANSFERS FROM IHGH- PRIORTTY READINESS APPROPRIATIONS. Section 361 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 2732) is amended to read as follows: " SEC. 361. SEMIANNUAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON TRANSFERS FROMfflGH-PRIORITYREADINESS APPROPRIATIONS. "(a) ANNUAL REPORTS.— During 1996 and 1997, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on transfers during the preceding fiscal year from funds available for each budget activity specified in subsection (d) (hereinafter in this section referred to as 'covered budget activities'). The report each year shall be submitted not later than the date in that year on which the President submits the budget for the next fiscal year to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code. "(b) MIDYEAR REPORTS.— On May 1 of each year specified in subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report providing the same information, with respect to the first six months of the fiscal year in which the report is submitted, that is provided in reports under subsection (a) with respect to the preceding fiscal year. "(c) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—In each report under this section, the Secretary shall include for each covered budget activity the following: "(1) A statement, for the period covered by the report, of—
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