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 PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 107 STAT. 1659 SEC. 535. PROHmrnON OF TRANSFER OF NAVAL ACADEMY PRE- PARATORY SCHOOL. During fiscal year 1994, the Secretary of the Navy may not transfer the Naval Academy Preparatory School from Newport, Rhode Island, to Annapolis, Maryland, or expend any funds for any work (including preparation of an architectural engineering study, design work, or construction or modification of any structure) in preparation for such a transfer. SEC. 536. TEST PROGRAM TO EVALUATE USE OF PRIVATE PRE- 10 USC 4331 PARATORY SCHOOLS FOR SERVICE ACADEMY PRE- note. PARATORY SCHOOL MISSION. (a) TEST PROGRAM. —The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a test program to determine the efficiency and cost effectiveness of using schools in the private sector as an alternative to the existing schools used for the mission of operating a military preparatory school program for one or more of the service academies. The Secretary shall car^ out the test program through the Under Secretary Defense for Personnel and Readiness. (b) PRIORITY.— The test program shall be carried out so as Minorities. to give priority to the goal of enhancing opportunities for minorities, Women. women, and prior enlisted personnel to attend service academies. (c) EXCLUSION FROM ACADEMY STRENGTH LIMITATIONS.—Any individual who is admitted to one of the three service academies following completion of a program of instruction at a private sector preparatory school under the test program shall be excluded from the computation of the size of the corps of cadets or brigade of midshipmen, as the case may be, for purposes of strength ceilings imposed by law. Subtitle D—Women in the Service SEC. 641. REPEAL OF THE STATUTORY RESTRICTION ON THE ASSIGN- MENT OF WOMEN IN THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS. (a) IN GENERAL. —Section 6015 of title 10, United States Code, is repealed. (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 555 of such title is amended by striking out the item relating to section 6015. SEC. 542. NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF PROPOSED CHANGES IN COMBAT 10 USC 113 note. ASSIGNMENTS TO WHICH FEMALE MEMBERS MAY BE ASSIGNED. (a) IN GENERAL. —(1) Except in a case covered by subsection (b), whenever the Secretary of Defense proposes to change military personnel policies in order to make available to female members of the Armed Forces assignment to any type of combat unit, class of combat vessel, or tvpe of combat platform that is not open to such assignments, the Secretary shall, not less than 30 days before such change is implemented, transmit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives notice of the proposed change in personnel policy. (2) If beiore the date of the enactment of this Act the Secretary made any change to military personnel policies in order to make available to female members of the Armed Forces assignment to any type of combat unit, class of combat vessel, or type of combat platform that was not previously open to such assignments, the

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