RESERVE FORCES POLICY BOARD.

SEC. 1255. RESERVE FORCES POLICY BOARD. (a) Commendation.— The Congress commends the Reserve Forces Policy Board, created by the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952 (Public Law 82–476), for its fine work in the past as an independent source of advice to the Secretary of Defense on all matters pertaining to the reserve components. (b) Sense of Congress.— It is the sense of Congress that the Reserve Forces Policy Board and the reserve forces policy committees for the individual branches of the Armed Forces should continue to perform the vital role of providing the civilian leadership of the Department of Defense with independent advice on matters pertaining to the reserve components. (c) Annual Report of Reserve Forces Policy Board.— Section 113(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out paragraph (3); (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively; (3) by inserting “(1)” after “(c)”; (4) by inserting “and” at the end of subparagraph (B), as redesignated by paragraph (2); and (5) by adding at the end the following: “(2) At the same time that the Secretary submits the annual report under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall transmit to the President and Congress a separate report from the Reserve Forces Policy Board on the reserve programs of the Department of Defense and on any other matters that the Reserve Forces Policy Board considers appropriate to include in the report.”.