STAFFING AND FUNDING FOR DEFENSE PRISONER OF WAR/ MISSING PERSONNEL OFFICE.

SEC. 551. STAFFING AND FUNDING FOR DEFENSE PRISONER OF WAR/ MISSING PERSONNEL OFFICE. (a) Requirement for Staffing and Funding at Levels Required for Performance of Full Range of Missions.—Subsection (a) of section 1501 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(5)(A) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the office is provided sufficient military and civilian personnel, and sufficient funding, to enable the office to fully perform the complete range of missions of the office. The Secretary shall ensure that Department of Defense programming, planning, and budgeting procedures are structured so as to ensure compliance with the preceding sentence for each fiscal year. “(B) For any fiscal year, the number of military and civilian personnel assigned or detailed to the office may not be less than the number requested in the President’s budget for fiscal year 2003, unless a level below such number is expressly required by law. “(C) For any fiscal year, the level of funding allocated to the office within the Department of Defense may not be below the level requested for such purposes in the President’s budget for fiscal year 2003, unless such a level of funding is expressly required by law”.116 STAT. 2552 (b) Name of Office.—Such subsection is further amended by inserting after the first sentence of paragraph (1) the following new sentence: “Such office shall be known as the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office.”.