---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3105a"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3105a"
heading: "Classified intelligence budget justification materials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3105a"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Accountability for Intelligence Activities"
---

# §3105a. Classified intelligence budget justification materials

- (a) **Definitions—** In this section:
  - (1) **Budget—** The term “budget” has the meaning given the term “budget of the President” in [section 3097 of this title](/usc/50/3097.md).
  - (2) **Classified intelligence budget justification materials—** The term “classified [intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=1) budget justification materials” means, with respect to a fiscal year, the materials submitted to Congress by the Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5) in support of the budget for that fiscal year that are classified or otherwise protected from public disclosure.
- (b) **Timely submission—** Not later than 5 days after the date on which the President submits to Congress the budget for each fiscal year pursuant to [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a), the Director of [National Intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=5) shall submit to the [congressional intelligence committees](/usc/50/3003.md?p=7) and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives the classified [intelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=1) budget justification materials for the element for that budget.

## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 506J, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. F, title LXIII, § 6305, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3504; amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. F, title LXVIII, § 6804(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1655.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3105a, act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 506J, as added Pub. L. 113–126, title III, § 306(a), July 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 1395, required annual assessments of intelligence community performance by function, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 116–92, div. E, title LVII, § 5701(c), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2160.

### Amendments

2025—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 119–60 inserted “and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives” after “congressional intelligence committees”.