---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8225"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8225"
heading: "Female members: congressional review period for assignment to duty on submarines or for reconfiguration of submarines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8225"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 825 — Administration"
---

# §8225. Female members: congressional review period for assignment to duty on submarines or for reconfiguration of submarines

- (a) No change in the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) policy limiting service on submarines to males, as in effect on May 10, 2000, may take effect until—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of Defense submits to Congress written notice of the proposed change; and
  - (2) a period of 30 days of continuous session of Congress (excluding any day on which either House of Congress is not in session) expires following the date on which the notice is received.
- (b) No funds available to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may be expended to reconfigure any existing submarine, or to design any new submarine, to accommodate female crew members until—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of Defense submits to Congress written notice of the proposed reconfiguration or design; and
  - (2) a period of 30 days of continuous session of Congress (excluding any day on which either House of Congress is not in session) expires following the date on which the notice is received.
- (c) For purposes of this section, the continuity of a session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title V, § 573(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–136, § 6035; renumbered § 8225, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(7), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 8225, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 503; Dec. 12, 1980, Pub. L. 96–513, title V, § 504(9), 94 Stat. 2916; Sept. 29, 1988, Pub. L. 100–456, div. A, title XII, § 1234(a)(1), 102 Stat. 2059, related to authorized strength of Air National Guard and Air National Guard of United States, exclusive of members on active duty, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1662(a)(3), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2988. See section 12002 of this title.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6035 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.