10 USC § 1783 - Family members serving on advisory committees

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title: "10 USC § 1783 - Family members serving on advisory committees"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "1783"
section_name: "Family members serving on advisory committees"
chapter_number: 88
chapter_name: "MILITARY FAMILY PROGRAMS AND MILITARY CHILD CARE"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "MILITARY FAMILY PROGRAMS"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "PERSONNEL"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 568(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 330; amended Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(50), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4311.)"
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# § 1783. Family members serving on advisory committees

section 1001(2) of title 5

A committee within the Department of Defense which advises or assists the Department in the performance of any function which affects members of military families and which includes members of military families in its membership shall not be considered an advisory committee under  solely because of such membership.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 568(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 330; amended Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(a)(50), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4311.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022— substituted “” for “section 3(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.)”.