50 U.S.C. § 3105a: Classified intelligence…

Summary

When the President sends the annual budget to Congress under 31 U.S.C. 1105(a), the Director of National Intelligence must send the classified intelligence budget justification materials for that budget to the congressional intelligence committees and to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees within 5 days. Budget means the President’s budget (see section 3097). Classified intelligence budget justification materials means the classified or otherwise protected documents the DNI gives Congress to support that budget.

Title 50, §3105a

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(a)Definitions

In this section: (1) Budget

(2)Classified intelligence budget justification materials

The term “classified intelligence budget justification materials” means, with respect to a fiscal year, the materials submitted to Congress by the Director of National Intelligence in support of the budget for that fiscal year that are classified or otherwise protected from public disclosure.

(b)Timely submission

Not later than 5 days after the date on which the President submits to Congress the budget for each fiscal year pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives the classified intelligence budget justification materials for the element for that budget.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3105a, act

July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 506J, as added Pub. L. 113–126, title III, § 306(a),

July 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 1395, required annual assessments of intelligence community performance by function, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 116–92, div. E, title LVII, § 5701(c), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2160.

Amendments

2025—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 119–60 inserted “and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives” after “congressional intelligence committees”.

§3105a Classified Intelligence Budget Justification Materials