1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing Chain of Command Continuity Act . 2. National Security Council medical incapacity notification enhancement Section 3349 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (c) (1) Not later than 24 hours after the head of an Executive agency who is a member of the National Security Council becomes medically incapacitated or 24 hours in advance of a planned medical procedure where incapacitation is known or may be reasonably assumed, the person serving or who will be serving in an acting capacity as such head or, if no person is or will be so acting, the first assistant to the office of such head, shall submit to the appropriate Federal officials a notification that such head is or will be medically incapacitated. (2) If the notification required by paragraph (1) with respect to a head of an Executive agency becoming medically incapacitated is not submitted in accordance with the requirements of such paragraph, not later than 72 hours after such head became subject to such medical incapacity the person serving in an acting capacity as such head or, if no person is so acting, the first assistant to the office of such head, shall submit to the appropriate Federal officials a report including— (A) the name of each individual who served in an acting capacity as such head pursuant to such medical incapacity and, for each such individual— (i) the dates of such service; (ii) whether such individual was authorized to serve in such acting capacity; and (iii) a comprehensive list of resources and authorities allocated to such individual while serving in such acting capacity to ensure that such individual could perform the functions and duties of the office of such head; (B) an explanation why the notification required by paragraph (1) was not submitted in accordance with the requirements of such paragraph