---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1783"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1783"
heading: "Family members serving on advisory committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1783"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 88 — Military Family Programs and Military Child Care"
  - "Subchapter I — Military Family Programs"
---

# §1783. Family members serving on advisory committees


A committee within the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense which advises or assists the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) in the performance of any [function](/usc/10/467.md?p=1) which affects members of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) families and which [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) members of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) families in its membership shall not be considered an advisory committee under [section 1001(2) of title 5](/usc/5/1001.md?p=2) solely because of such membership.


## 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.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “section 1001(2) of title 5” for “section 3(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.)”.