To improve the process for timely informing members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, their families, their employers, and Congress of changes in deployment policies and schedules applicable to mobilize members of the reserve components.

1. Adds Sec. 316. (a) In the administration of laws and policies on the period for which members of reserve components of the Armed Forces called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10, United States Code, are deployed outside the United States, the deployment shall be considered to have begun on the first day of the active-duty service to which called or ordered and shall be considered to have ended on the last day of the active-duty service to which called or ordered on page 22, between lines 12 and 13

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   Inserted: Sec. 316. (a) In the administration of laws and policies on the period for which members of reserve components of the Armed Forces called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law referred to in section 101(a)(13)(B) of title 10, United States Code, are deployed outside the United States, the deployment shall be considered to have begun on the first day of the active-duty service to which called or ordered and shall be considered to have ended on the last day of the active-duty service to which called or ordered.

   Inserted: (b) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirements of subsection (a) in any case in which the Secretary determines that it is necessary to do so to respond to a national security emergency or to meet dire operational requirements of the Armed Forces.

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   On page 22, between lines 12 and 13, insert the following:

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