POSTPONEMENT OF CONFINEMENT.

SEC. 1064. POSTPONEMENT OF CONFINEMENT. Section 857 (article 57) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(e) (1) In any case in which a court-martial sentences a person referred to in paragraph (2) to confinement, the convening authority may postpone the service of the sentence to confinement, without the consent of that person, until after the person has been permanently released to the armed forces by a State or foreign country referred to in that paragraph. “(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a person subject to this chapter who— 106 STAT. 2506 “(A) while in the custody of a State or foreign country is temporarily returned by that State or foreign country to the armed forces for trial by court-martial; and “(B) after the court-martial, is returned to that State or foreign country under the authority of a mutual agreement or treaty, as the case may be. “(3) In this subsection, the term ‘State’ includes the District of Columbia and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.”.