_______ Act of 2024

Bill: 119-hr-590
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-21
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal officials

National Guard and reserves
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong></strong>This bill requires the consent of the chief executive officers (e.g., governors) of involved states when the President or Department of Defense orders National Guard units to perform training or other duty in such states. Under the bill, the term <em>state</em>&nbsp;includes the District of Columbia and territories or possessions of the United States. The bill also subjects the ordered training or duty to the limitations of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of the military for civil law enforcement purposes.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 590 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 21, 2025 Ms. Sherrill introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 32, United States Code, to clarify certain limitations on full-time National Guard duty performed in a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the _______ Act of 2024 . 2. Requirement of consent of the chief executive officer for certain full-time National Guard duty performed in a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia Subsection (f) of section 502 of title 32, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking Under and inserting Subject to paragraph (2) and under ; (2) in paragraph (2), by striking subsection (A) and inserting the following: (A) Support of operations or missions undertaken by the member's unit at the request of the President or Secretary of Defense, with the consent of— (i) the chief executive officer of each State (as that term is defined in section 901 of this title) in which such operations or missions shall take place; and (ii) if such operations or missions shall take place in the District of Columbia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia. ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) The training or duty ordered to be performed under paragraph (1) shall be subject to the limitations of section 1385 of title 18, commonly referred to as the Posse Comitatus Act . .