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HAMDT 554 (103rd)

An amendment comprised of several amendments offered en bloc to authorize $400 million in funds to help aid in the dismantling of nuclear weapons in the states of the former Soviet Union; $60 million for overseas humanitarian and disaster assistance; to authorize $25 million to clear landmines; to prohibit the use of $50 million of funds until the President certifies that the U.S. is making an effort to ensure that out allies are increasing their funding levels for demilitarization; to give DOD the authority to accept gifts for elementary and secondary schools established as part of the defense dependent's education system; to prohibit the direct operation or maintenance of sealift vessels by Defense or Transportation Departments; to codify current DOD policy which prohibits the department from transporting chemical weapons stockpiles across state lines; to permit the donation of certain excess property to non-profit educational institutions or training schools; to earmark $52 million of the funds authorized for Ballistic Missile Defense activities for the ARROW/ACES ballistic missile defense program; to require the Army to provide a semiannual report to the National Guard Bureau with the names and addresses of all officers who were honorably discharged from active duty in the previous 6 months; to require DOD to purchas. and maintain in its inventory an equal number of doses of oral typhoid vaccine and parenteral injection typhoid vaccine; to make changes in the bill's provisions regarding depot-level maintenance; to express the sense of Congress that NATO reserve the right to act in defense of its vital interests in the absence of a mandate from the UN or the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe mandate; requires the Defense Department to report to Congress within six months on the policies and procedures under which members of the armed forces are randomly tested for drugs; standardizes the procedures for appointing, promoting, and dismissing U.S. military officers; and provides civilian military employees who are unable to use their annual leave because of a base realignment with the same provision given to employees affected by base closures by allowing civilian military employees to include accrued annual leave in lump sum leave payments.

Defence · Education