; applicability (1) Effective date This section shall take effect on the earlier of— (A) the date on which the General Counsel of the Department of Defense certifies to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives that the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals is prepared for the provisions of this section to take effect; or (B) September 30, 2024. (2) Applicability This section shall apply to revocations of eligibility to access classified information or sensitive compartmented information that occur on or after the date on which this section takes effect pursuant to paragraph (1). (h) Rule of construction Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish or otherwise affect the authority of the head of a component of the Department to suspend access to classified information or a special access program, including sensitive compartmented information, in exigent circumstances, should the head determine that continued access of a covered individual is inconsistent with protecting the national security of the United States. 1044. Assistance in support of Department of Defense accounting for missing United States Government personnel (a) In general Section 408 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the section heading, by striking Equipment and training of foreign personnel to assist in and inserting Assistance in support of ; (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) Funds. ; (3) by striking subsections (d) and (f); (4) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d)