10 U.S.C. § 7142
Army: percentage of high-school graduates
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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Notwithstanding section 520(b) of this title, of the males with no prior military service who are enlisted or inducted into the Army during any fiscal year, the number who are not high-school graduates may not exceed, as of the end of the fiscal year, 35 percent of all such persons.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to codify in that title certain defense-related permanent free-standing provisions of law.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019