Title: To amend title 10, United States Code, to require an annual report on the personnel, training, and equipment needs of the non-federalized National Guard.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill directs the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to submit to specified recipients an annual report for 2018 through 2024 that identifies the personnel, training, and equipment required by the non-federalized National Guard to: (1) support civilian authorities in connection with natural and man-made disasters; and (2) carry out related prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities.
Such reports shall: (1) set forth the requirements for each of the emergency support functions of the National Response Framework and each of the Federal Emergency Management Agency regions; (2) assess core civilian capability gaps; and (3) consider threat and hazard identifications and risk assessments of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the states.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2564 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2564

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require an annual report on 
  the personnel, training, and equipment needs of the non-federalized 
                            National Guard.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2017

 Mr. LoBiondo (for himself, Ms. Bordallo, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Jones, Mr. 
Byrne, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Knight, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Banks 
of Indiana, and Mr. Gallagher) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require an annual report on 
  the personnel, training, and equipment needs of the non-federalized 
                            National Guard.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ANNUAL REPORT ON PERSONNEL, TRAINING, AND EQUIPMENT NEEDS OF 
              THE NON-FEDERALIZED NATIONAL GUARD.

    (a) Annual Report Required.--Section 10504 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the heading of subsection (a), by striking 
        ``Report.--'' and inserting ``Report on State of the National 
        Guard.--(1)'';
            (2) by striking ``(b) Submission of Report to Congress.--'' 
        and inserting ``(2)'';
            (3) by striking ``annual report of the Chief of the 
        National Guard Bureau'' and inserting ``annual report required 
        by paragraph (1)''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection (b):
    ``(b) Annual Report on Non-Federalized National Guard.--(1) Not 
later than January 31 of each of calendar years 2018 through 2024, the 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall submit to the recipients 
described in paragraph (3) a report that identifies the personnel, 
training, and equipment required by the non-federalized National 
Guard--
            ``(A) to support civilian authorities in connection with 
        natural and man-made disasters during the covered period; and
            ``(B) to carry out prevention, protection, mitigation, 
        response, and recovery activities relating to such disasters 
        during the covered period.
    ``(2) In preparing each report under paragraph (1), the Chief of 
the National Guard Bureau shall--
            ``(A) consult with the chief executive of each State, the 
        Council of Governors, and other appropriate civilian 
        authorities;
            ``(B) collect and validate information from each State 
        relating to the personnel, training, and equipment requirements 
        described in paragraph (1);
            ``(C) set forth separately the personnel, training, and 
        equipment requirements for--
                    ``(i) each of the emergency support functions of 
                the National Response Framework; and
                    ``(ii) each of the Federal Emergency Management 
                Agency regions;
            ``(D) assess core civilian capability gaps relating to 
        natural and man-made disasters, as identified by States in 
        submissions to the Department of Homeland Security; and
            ``(E) take into account threat and hazard identifications 
        and risk assessments of the Department of Defense, the 
        Department of Homeland Security, and the States.
    ``(3) The recipients described in this paragraph are--
            ``(A) the congressional defense committees;
            ``(B) the Secretary of Defense;
            ``(C) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
            ``(D) the Council of Governors;
            ``(E) the Secretary of the Army;
            ``(F) the Secretary of the Air Force;
            ``(G) the Commander of the United States Northern Command;
            ``(H) the Commander of the United States Pacific Command; 
        and
            ``(I) the Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
    ``(4) In this subsection, the term `covered period' means the 
fiscal year beginning after the date on which each report is submitted 
under paragraph (1).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--
            (1) Section heading.--The heading of such section is 
        amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 10504. Chief of National Guard Bureau: annual reports''.
            (2) Table of contents.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of chapter 1011 of title 10, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking the item relating to section 10504 and 
        inserting the following:

``10504. Chief of National Guard Bureau: annual reports.''.
    (c) Exemption From Report Elimination Requirements.--Section 1080 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public 
Law 114-92; 129 Stat. 1000; 10 U.S.C. 111 note), as amended by section 
1061(j) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 
(Public Law 114-328), does not apply to the report required to be 
submitted to the congressional defense committees under section 
10504(b) of title 10, United States Code, as amended by this section.
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