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Notification required to implement changes to military legal system recommended by Special Review Panel activities

Division A · Title V: MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY · Subtitle E: Military Justice

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The Secretary of Defense must wait 180 days after submitting all recommendations and related documents from the Special Review Panel to Congress before making any changes to the military legal system based on those recommendations. The Secretary is required to provide Congress with these documents within specific timeframes depending on when they were received. The Special Review Panel refers to the group established by the Secretary of Defense in May 2026 to review the military legal system.

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Section Text · Sec. 549C.
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(a) Prohibition

The Secretary of Defense may not implement a recommendation of the Special Review Panel until a period of 180 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees all documentation required under subsection (b).

(b) Documentation required

(1) In general

The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees all recommendations and analysis delivered by the Special Review Panel to the Secretary of Defense.

(2) Timing of submissions

(A)

Any documentation described in paragraph (1) that was delivered to the Secretary of Defense before the date of the enactment of this Act, shall be submitted to the congressional defense committees not later than 30 days after such date of enactment.

(B)

Any documentation described in paragraph (1) that is delivered to the Secretary of Defense on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, shall be submitted to the congressional defense committees not later than five days after the date of delivery to the Secretary.

(c) Special Review Panel defined

In this section, the term Special Review Panel means the Special Review Panel established pursuant to the memorandum of the Secretary of Defense dated May 8, 2026, titled Departmental Review of the Military Legal System and Its Impact on Service Members .