---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20217"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20217"
heading: "Action on reports of selection boards for promotion to brigadier general or major general"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20217"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Officers"
  - "Subchapter II — Selection Boards"
---

# §20217. Action on reports of selection boards for promotion to brigadier general or major general

- (a) **In General.—** After reviewing a report received under [section 20215 of this title](/usc/10/20215.md) recommending [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on the Space Force [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) list for promotion to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general or major general, but before submitting the report to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Air Force may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, adjust the placement of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) as recommended in the report in order to ensure that sufficient number of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on both sustained and non-[sustained duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-4) are promoted to meet the requirements of the Space Force to fill [general officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-4) vacancies.
- (b) **Report.—** Whenever the Secretary of the Air Force uses the authority under [subsection (a)](#a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report informing the committees that the authority has been used and the reason for the use of the authority.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1716(c), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 638.)