BRIEFINGS ON MEETINGS HELD BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS COUNCIL.

SEC. 1663. BRIEFINGS ON MEETINGS HELD BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS COUNCIL. Section 179 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(g) Semiannual Briefings.—(1) Not later than February 1 and August 1 of each year, the Council shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on, with respect to the six-month period preceding the briefing— “(A) the dates on which the Council met; and “(B) except as provided by paragraph (2), a summary of any decisions made by the Council pursuant to subsection (d) at each such meeting and the rationale for and options that informed such decisions. “(2) The Council shall not be required to include in a briefing under paragraph (1) the matters described in subparagraph (B) of that paragraph with respect to decisions of the Council relating to the budget of the President for a fiscal year if the budget for that fiscal year has not been submitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 31 as of the date of the briefing.” .