Sec. 2. Modification and extension of National Guard State Partnership Program
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Subsection (a)(1) of section 1205 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 ( Public Law 113–66 ; 127 Stat. 897; 32 U.S.C. 107 note) is amended— by striking whose primary functions include disaster response or emergency response, ; and by adding at the end before the period the following: to support the national interests and security cooperation goals and objectives of the United States as defined by the current and evolving national global strategic policies of the United States . Subsection
(b)of such section is amended by striking whose primary functions include disaster response or emergency response . Subsection
(c)of such section is amended to read as follows: The Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall— establish, maintain, and update as appropriate a list of core competencies of the National Guard to support each program established under subsection (a), collectively and for each State and territory, and shall submit to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State the list of core competencies of the National Guard and additional information needed to make use of such core competencies; and designate a director for each State and territory who shall be responsible for the conduct of activities under a program established under subsection
(a)for such State or territory and reporting on activities under the program. The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that regulations to carry out this section include planning, coordinating, and execution requirements with the commanders of applicable combatant commands and that activities under a program established under subsection
(a)meet the relevant theater security cooperation objectives. The Secretary of State shall ensure that the regulations to carry out this section include planning, coordinating, and execution requirements with the relevant chiefs of mission and that activities under a program established under subsection
(a)meet the diplomatic objectives of the Department of State. . Subsection
(d)of such section is amended to read as follows: There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury the National Guard State Partnership Program Fund (in this subsection referred to as the Fund ). There shall be credited to the Fund the following: Amounts authorized for and appropriated to the Fund. Amounts that the Secretary of Defense transfers, in such amounts as provided in appropriations Acts, to the Fund from amounts authorized and appropriated to the Department of Defense, including amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. In such amounts as provided in appropriations Acts, the Secretary of Defense may use amounts in the Fund— for payment of costs incurred by the National Guard of a State or territory to conduct activities under a program established under subsection (a), including costs for personnel, training, operations, and equipment; and for payment of incremental expenses of a foreign country to conduct activities under a program established under subsection (a). Amounts shall not be available under paragraph
(3)for the participation of a member of the National Guard of a State or territory in activities in a foreign country unless the member is on active duty in the Armed Forces at the time of such participation. The total amount of payments for incremental expenses of foreign countries as authorized under paragraph (3)(B) for activities under programs established under subsection
(a)in any fiscal year may not exceed $10,000,000. . Subsection
(e)of such section is amended— by striking
(e)and all that follows through Reports and notifications .—
(B)and inserting the following: Matters to be included .— Not later than January 31 of each year following a fiscal year in which activities under a program established under subsection
(a)are carried out, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on such activities under the program. ; by redesignating clauses
(i)through
(v)as subparagraphs
(A)through (E), respectively, and adjusting the margin of such subparagraphs, as so redesignated, two ems to the left; and in paragraph
(2)(as redesignated)— in subparagraph
(C)(as redesignated), by inserting or other government organizations after and security forces ; in subparagraph
(D)(as redesignated), by adding at the end before the period the following: or chief of mission ; in subparagraph
(E)(as redesignated), by adding at the end before the period the following: or how the activities support the chief of mission with responsibilities for the country in which the activities occurred ; and by adding at the end the following: A performance review of activities conducted during the previous year using metrics developed by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. . Subsection
(g)of such section is amended— by redesignating paragraph
(2)as paragraph (3); by inserting after paragraph
(1)the following: The term core competencies or core competencies of the National Guard means military-to-military and military-to-civilian skills and capabilities of the National Guard that would contribute the purpose of the program established under subsection (a). ; and by adding at the end the following: The term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. . Such section is further amended by striking subsection (i).
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Modification and extension of National Guard State Partnership Program
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