REVIEW AND REPORT REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL GUARD FULL-TIME SUPPORT AMONG THE STATES.

SEC. 554. REVIEW AND REPORT REGARDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF NATIONAL GUARD FULL-TIME SUPPORT AMONG THE STATES. (a) Requirement for Review.— The Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall review the process used for allocating and distributing all categories of full-time support personnel among the States for the National Guard of the States. (b) Purpose of Review.— The purpose of the review is to determine whether that allocation and distribution process provides for adequately meeting the full-time support personnel requirements of the National Guard in the case of those States that have fewer than 16 National Guard units categorized in readiness tiers I, II, and III. (c) Matters To Be Reviewed.— The matters reviewed shall include the following: (1) The factors considered for the process of determining the distribution among the States of full-time support personnel, including the weights assigned to those factors. (2) The extent to which that process results in full-time support personnel levels for the units of the States described in subsection (b) that are at the levels necessary to optimize the preparedness of those units to meet the mission requirements applicable to those units. 112 STAT. 2025 (3) The effects that full-time support personnel at levels determined under that process will have on the National Guard of those States in the future, including the effects on all categories of full-time support personnel, and unit readiness, recruitment, and continued use of existing National Guard armories and other facilities. (d) Report.— Not later than March 15, 1999, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall submit to the Secretary of Defense a report on the results of the review. Not later than April 30, 1999, the Secretary shall transmit the report, and the Secretary’s evaluation of and comments on the report, to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives.