10 USC § 10501 - National Guard Bureau

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title: "10 USC § 10501 - National Guard Bureau"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "10501"
section_name: "National Guard Bureau"
chapter_number: 1011
chapter_name: "NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX, § 904(a), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2824; amended Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title XVIII, § 1812(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 497.)"
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# § 10501. National Guard Bureau

**(a)** **National Guard Bureau.—** There is in the Department of Defense the National Guard Bureau, which is a joint activity of the Department of Defense.

**(b)** **Purposes.—** The National Guard Bureau is the channel of communications on all matters pertaining to the National Guard, the Army National Guard of the United States, and the Air National Guard of the United States between (1) the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force, and (2) the several States.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX, § 904(a), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2824; amended Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title XVIII, § 1812(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 497.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in , prior to repeal by .

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (a).  substituted “joint activity of the Department of Defense” for “joint bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

> “The provisions of chapter 1011 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall become effective, and the repeal made by subsection (b) [repealing
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> , National Guard] shall take effect, at the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [
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, , , as amended by , , , provided that: