§1033 Participation in management of specified non-Federal entities: authorized activities

Summary

A service Secretary may let one of their service members serve without compensation as a director, officer, trustee, or otherwise take part in managing a specific non‑federal group. Permission is given one at a time for a named person, role, and organization. The member may only provide oversight, advice, and coordination with the group. The member may not run the group's day‑to‑day operations. The Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security for the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, must pick which groups can get these permissions. The list can be changed no more often than semiannually. The list must include the four military welfare societies: Army Emergency Relief; Air Force Aid Society, Inc.; Navy‑Marine Corps Relief Society; and Coast Guard Mutual Assistance. Other nonprofit groups may be added if they fit certain categories, such as academy athletics, international athletics, accrediting schools, military health care standards (if the group names the position a member may hold), or programs abroad that build relations between U.S. personnel and local citizens. Each designation and each permission must be published in the Federal Register, and the Secretaries must write rules to carry out these steps.