I believe that means that the 180 day clock starts soon on the "date of
enactment". More details to follow. Scott


SEC. 717. REPORT AND PLAN ON SERVICES TO MILITARY DEPENDENT CHILDREN WITH
AUTISM.

(a) Plan Required- The Secretary of Defense shall, within 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, develop a plan to provide services to
military dependent children with autism pursuant to the authority for an
extended health care services program in subsections (d) and (e) of section
1079 of title 10, United States Code. Such plan shall include--

(1) requirements for the education, training, and supervision of individuals
providing services for military dependent children with autism;

(2) standards for identifying and measuring the availability, distribution,
and training of individuals of various levels of expertise to provide such
services; and

(3) procedures to ensure that such services are in addition to other
publicly provided services to such children.

(b) Participation of Affected Families- In developing the plan required
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure the involvement and
participation of affected military families or their representatives.

(c) Report Required- Not later than 30 days after completion of the plan
required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committees
on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on
the plan. The report may include any additional information the Secretary
considers relevant.



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From: Grant, Warren CIV OSD RA
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:16 PM
To: All RA (Pentagon/NCESGR/RFPB); Sullivan, Robert G MAJ OSD RA;
'riddlegs@...'
Subject: President Bush Signs Defense Authorization



CQ TODAY
Oct. 17, 2006 - 1:25 p.m.



Bush Signs Defense Authorization



By John M. Donnelly, CQ Staff

President Bush on Tuesday signed into law a $532.8 billion measure
authorizing defense programs for the coming fiscal year, including another
$70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a White House official
confirmed.

The president signed the bill in a closed ceremony and has not yet issued a
statement on the measure's enactment.

The bill (HR
<javascript:simplePopup('displaybillcard.do?billNumber=HR5122&congress=109',
'billCard',680,430);> 5122) authorizes a 2.2 percent across-the-board pay
raise for military personnel from funds allocated in HR
<javascript:simplePopup('displaybillcard.do?billNumber=HR5631&congress=109',
'billCard',680,430);> 5631, the fiscal 2007 appropriations bill.

The final bill authorizes $23.8 billion for refurbishing military equipment
worn down in battle. It also provides spending on new armor to protect the
troops and their vehicles from roadside bomb blasts, and $2.1 billion for
the Pentagon office charged with devising ways to defeat those homemade
bombs.

Besides addressing immediate war needs, the conferees also backed research
and procurement of new weapons. The measure authorizes the Pentagon to buy
60 F-22A Raptor fighter jets over three years and four F-35 Joint Strike
Fighters and parts of future ones in the coming fiscal year. The conferees
agreed to continue development of a backup engine for the F-35 - a venture
the Pentagon had wanted to halt.

The measure limits the retirement of older aircraft, including the U-2 spy
plane, the B-52H bomber and KC-135E tanker. And it requires the Pentagon to
maintain 299 strategic airlift planes starting in fiscal 2009, indirectly
mandating continued production of C-17 cargo aircraft, which the Pentagon
also wants to scrap.

As for warships, the bill allows the Navy to start building two new DDG-1000
destroyers in two different shipyards and to maintain 11 aircraft carriers.

In the Army, the conferees required a Pentagon assessment of whether the
Future Combat Systems program of next-generation weapons should be altered,
terminated or kept as is.

The conferees were careful not to increase the wartime pressures on military
families. First, they increased the number of soldiers and Marines in
uniform in fiscal 2007, to spread the burden of deployments. The final
measure would raise the size of the Army by 30,000, or 6 percent, to
512,400, and the Marine Corps by 5,000, or 3 percent, to 180,000.

Conferees also rejected the administration's proposed increases in pharmacy
co-payments or enrollment fees for participants in the military's Tricare
medical network.









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