---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 486"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "486"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title V, § 566(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1905"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/486"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 23 — Miscellaneous Studies and Reports"
---

# [§486. Repealed. Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title V, § 566(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 1905 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title V, § 549G(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1727; amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title XVII, § 1701(a)(9), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2203, required the Secretary of each military department to submit annual reports on racial, ethnic, and sex demographics in the military justice system and required the Secretary of Defense to forward any reports received to Congress.

A prior section 486, added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title II, § 241(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 549, related to quadrennial report on emerging operational concepts, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title X, § 1061(8)(A), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1583.