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Title 14, Coast GuardRelease 119-102

§2118 Selection Boards; Submission of Reports

Title 14 › SUBTITLE II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 21 — PERSONNEL; OFFICERS › SUBCHAPTER I — APPOINTMENT AND PROMOTION › § 2118

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

A selection board must send its report to the Secretary. If the board broke a law or rule, the Secretary can send the report back for more work. After the Secretary finishes, the Secretary sends the report to the President, who can approve it, change it, or remove names. If the President approves, the promoted officers’ names are quickly shared with the whole service. The board’s proceedings are kept private except when the law requires otherwise. If the Secretary asks that an officer’s name be removed using information the board never saw, the officer must be given that information and a fair chance to reply. If the information is classified and cannot be shown, the officer should get a usable summary when possible.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §2118

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(a)A board convened under section 2106 of this title shall submit its report to the Secretary. If the board has acted contrary to law or regulation, the Secretary may return the report for proceedings in revision and resubmission to the Secretary. After his final review, the Secretary shall submit the report of the board to the President for his approval, modification, or disapproval.
(b)If any officer recommended for promotion is not acceptable to the President, the President may remove the name of that officer from the report of the board.
(c)Upon approval by the President the names of officers selected for promotion by a board convened under section 2106 of this title shall be promptly disseminated to the service at large.
(d)Except as required by this section, the proceedings of a selection board, including a special selection board convened under section 2120, shall not be disclosed to any individual who is not a member of the board.
(e)If the Secretary makes a recommendation under this section that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation is accompanied by information that was not presented to that selection board, that information shall be made available to that officer. The officer shall then be afforded a reasonable opportunity to submit comments on that information to the officials making the recommendation and the officials reviewing the recommendation. If an eligible officer cannot be given access to such information because of its classification status, the officer shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be provided with an appropriate summary of the information.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 117–263 added subsec. (e). 2021—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “individual who is” for “person”. 2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 112(b), renumbered section 261 of this title as this section. Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 115–282, § 123(b)(2), substituted “section 2106” for “section 251”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–282, § 123(b)(2), substituted “section 2120” for “section 263”. 2012—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 112–213 substituted “selection board, including a special selection board convened under section 263,” for “selection board”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2012 Amendment Pub. L. 112–213, title II, § 208(e)(1), Dec. 20, 2012, 126 Stat. 1549, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting section 263 of this title and amending this section and section 262 of this title] shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2012] and the Secretary may convene a special selection board on or after that date under section 263 [now 2120] of title 14, United States Code, with respect to any error or other action for which such a board may be convened if that error or other action occurred on or after the date that is 1 year before the date of enactment of this Act.”

Executive Documents

Delegation of Authority Authority of President under subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section to approve, modify, or disapprove the report of a selection board, and to remove a name of an officer from a selection board report, respectively, delegated to Secretary of Homeland Security by Ex. Ord. No. 14106, § 1(a), (b), Aug. 14, 2023, 88 F.R. 55905, set out in a note under section 2101 of this title.

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Citation

14 U.S.C. § 2118

Title 14, Coast Guard

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102