Sec. 4. Personnel matters in connection with Transition Assistance Program
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The Secretary of Defense shall take appropriate actions to ensure that the minimum number of full-time equivalent personnel of the Department of Defense dedicated to counseling and other activities under the Transition Assistance Program at each military installation each year is not less than one for every 250 members of the Armed Forces generally projected to be eligible for participation in the Transition Assistance Program and their spouses at such military installation in such year. The Secretary may not satisfy the requirement in this paragraph through the use of contractor personnel. The Secretary shall comply with the requirement in paragraph
(1)commencing not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. For purposes of providing counseling under and otherwise administering the Transition Assistance Program, the Secretary of Defense shall take appropriate actions to ensure that, to the maximum extent practicable, each individual employed by the Department of Defense to provide counseling under the Transition Assistance Program has both prior military experience and not less than two years of experience in civilian employment at the time of employment by the Department for such purposes. It is the sense of Congress that, in employing individuals to provide counseling under the Transition Assistance Program, the Secretary should consider affording a preference to individuals with longevity of experience in civilian employment at the time of employment by the Department for that purpose. The Secretary shall comply with the requirement in paragraph
(1)commencing not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the actions taken to implement this section, including— the actions taken to implement subsection (b); the number of individuals employed by the Department under subsection (b); the percentage of individuals employed in connection with the Transition Assistance Program who meet the requirement in subsection (b)(1); and such other information as the Secretary considers appropriate. In this section, the term Transition Assistance Program means the program of counseling, information, and services under section 1142 of title 10, United States Code (as amended by section 2 of this Act).