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 PUBLIC LAW 102-25—APR. 6, 1991 105 STAT. 87 analysis of the effect of deployments made as part of military operations during the Persian Gulf conflict on members of the Armed Forces referred to in that subsection, including the following (which shall be shown separately by service and for active-component and reserve-component personnel): (1) The number of single parent military personnel who were deployed and the number of children of those parents. (2) The number of members of the Armed Forces married to another member of the Armed Forces who were both deployed and the number of children of those members. (3) The number of members of the Armed Forces deployed (or given orders to deploy) who requested exceptions to existing policies respecting family members, categorized by the reasons given for the requests and the dispositions of the requests. (4) A description of any differences in any of the military departments in policies applicable to active component members and reserve component members and any problems that arose from those differences. (5) A statement of the incidence of use of military family assistance programs by persons other than parents who provided care for dependent children while parents in the Armed Forces were deployed. (6) A discussion of the effectiveness of military family assistance programs during the Persian Gulf conflict. (7) A discussion of the applicability of existing policies with respect to members of the Armed Forces who have dependents other than minor children, including dependent parents and dependent disabled adult children. (8) A discussion of proposed and actual changes by the Department of Defense in family assistance programs and assignment policies. SEC. 316. ADJUSTMENT IN THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF CHANGES IN MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS AS A RESULT OF OPERATION DESERT STORM (a) IN GENERAL. — (1) Section 703(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1582) is amended by striking out "February 15, 1991" and 10 USC 1079 inserting in lieu thereof "October 1, 1991". '^°^- (2) Section 8044 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1991 (Public Law 101-511; 104 Stat. 1884) is amended (A) in the matter preceding the first proviso, by striking out "this Act" and inserting in lieu thereof "any Act appropriating funds to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1992 and", and (B) in the fifth proviso, by striking out "February 15, 1991" and inserting in lieu thereof "October 1, 1991". (b) TRANSITION PROVISION.— Effective as of February 15, 1991, subsections (a)(6) and (i) of section 1079 of title 10, United States Code, as those subsections were in effect on February 14, 1991, are revived. (c) FUNDS.— Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 391, $36,000,000 shall be available for increased costs by reason of the amendments made by this section. SEC. 317. SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON SEPARATION OF CERTAIN MEMBERS FROM THEIR INFANT CHILDREN It is the Sense of the House of Representatives that— \

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