---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 496"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "496"
heading: "Relation to the National Security Council"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/496"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IX — National Homeland Security Council"
---

# §496. Relation to the National Security Council


The President may convene joint meetings of the [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security [Council](/usc/6/681.md?p=2) and the National Security [Council](/usc/6/681.md?p=2) with participation by members of either [Council](/usc/6/681.md?p=2) or as the President may otherwise direct.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IX, § 906, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2259.)