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 PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2551

States for their personal use while assigned to duty stations in the United States; and (5) the United States provides a substantial contribution to the defense of Japan and the waters surrounding Japan. (b) Considering the findings set out in subsection (a), it is the sense of the Congress that the President, acting through the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, should enter into negotiations with the Government of Japan for the purpose of obtaining the agreement of such government not to require the modification of the Personal motor vehicles of members of the Armed Forces of the United States brought into Japan for their personal use while stationed in Japan. (c) Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall transmit to the Congress a written report relating to the matters described in subsection (a). The report shall include— (1) a description of any negotiations carried out with the Government of Japan; and (2) a description of the other actions the Government of the United States can reasonably take to obtain an agreement described in subsection (b).

President of U.S. International agreement.

Report.

AUTHORITY FOR VOLUNTARY WITHHOLDING OF STATE INCOME TAXES FROM RETIRED AND RETAINER PAY

SEC. 654. (a) Chapter 53 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 1044 (as added by section 651) the following new section: "§ 1045. Voluntary withholding of State income tax from retired or retainer pay "(a) The Secretary concerned shall enter into an agreement under this section with any State within 120 days of a request for agreement from the proper State official. The agreement shall provide that the Secretary concerned shall withhold State income tax from the monthly retired or retainer pay of any member or former member entitled to such pay who voluntarily requests such withholding in writing. The amounts withheld during any calendar quarter shall be retained by the Secretary concerned and disbursed to the States during the month following that calendar quarter. "(b) A member or former member may request that the State designated for withholding be changed and that the withholdings be remitted in accordance with such change. A member or former member also may revoke any request of such member or former member for withholding. Any request for a change in the State designated and any revocation is effective on the first day of the month after the month in which the request or revocation is processed by the Secretary concerned, but in no event later than on the first day of the second month beginning after the day on which the request or revocation is received by the Secretary concerned. "(c) A member or former member may have in effect at any time only one request for withholding under this section and may not have more than two such requests in effect during any one calendar year. "(d)(1) This section does not give the consent of the United States to the application of a statute that imposes more burdensome requirements on the United States than on employers generally or

Ante, p. 2549. 10 USC 1045.

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