A bill making appropriations for Military Construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, and for other purposes.

Summary

Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for military construction operations administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for the following purposes: (1) military construction, Army; (2) military construction, Navy; (3) military construction, Air Force; (4) military construction, defense agencies; (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure; (6) military construction, Army National Guard; (7) military construction, Air National Guard; (8) military construction, Army Reserve; (9) military construction, Naval Reserve; (10) military construction, Air Force Reserve; (11) family housing, Army; (12) family housing, Navy and Marine Corps; and (13) family housing, Air Force. Rescinds a specified amount of budget authority for each of the above accounts as contained in the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1986. Appropriates funds also for: (1) family housing, defense agencies; (2) the homeowners assistance fund, defense; and (3) foreign currency fluctuations, construction, defense. Authorizes funds appropriated in this Act from being used for: (1) the hire of passenger motor vehicles; and (2) the construction of defense access roads. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used for: (1) payments under certain cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts, with a specified exception; (2) construction of new bases inside the continental United States for which specific appropriations have not been made; (3) the purchase of certain land or easements in excess of 100 percent of their value as determined by the Corps of Engineers or the Naval Facilities Engineering Command; (4) acquiring land, site preparation, or the installation of any utilities for family housing, except for housing specifically appropriated for under this Act; (5) transferring or relocating any activity from one base or installation to another, without certain prior notification; (6) the procurement of steel for any construction project or activity for which American steel producers have been denied the opportunity to compete; (7) the performance of dredging work in the Indian Ocean by foreign contractors; (8) the payment of real property taxes in any foreign nation; (9) payments to any alien for certain work performed if such alien has not been lawfully admitted into the United States; (10) expenditures for consulting services, unless such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection; (11) initiation of a new installation overseas, without prior congressional notification; (12) certain architect and engineer contracts to be accomplished in Japan or in any NATO-member country; or (13) the award of any contract in excess of $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel 30 days prior to its occurrence if amounts expended for such exercise are anticipated to exceed $100,000. Transfers certain funds of the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing provided in this Act. Prohibits more than 20 percent of the funds appropriated in this Act from being obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year. Transfers certain prior year funds for construction authorized in the first session of the 100th Congress. Directs the Secretary of Defense, by February 15, 1988, to provide the Appropriations Committees a report detailing the specific actions proposed to be taken by DOD during FY 1988 to encourage other members of NATO and Japan to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. Permits certain expired or lapsed funds to be used to pay certain overhead and other costs associated with military construction or family housing projects. Requires the Secretaries of each of the military departments to maintain legislative liaison to the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Military Construction in a manner identical to the method employed as of September 30, 1986. Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide funds for the design of access roads for the New Cumberland Army Depot, Pennsylvania, and for the Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania, with funds provided in this Act.

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Timeline

1. 6 January 1987

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Military Construction.

   Source: Committee

2. 6 January 1987

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 3 March 1987

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

4. 11 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

5. 18 March 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

6. 1 April 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

7. 6 April 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

8. 8 April 1987

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

9. 8 April 1987

   Committee

   Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

10. 6 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

11. 20 May 1987

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Military Construction. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

12. 23 June 1987

    Committee

    First Day of Subcommittee mark-up.

    Source: Committee

13. 9 July 1987

    Calendars

    Placed on Union Calendar No: 127.

    Source: Calendars

14. 9 July 1987

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-209.

    Source: Committee

15. 9 July 1987

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-209.

    Source: Committee

16. 9 July 1987

    Reported

    Ordered to be Reported.

    Source: Committee

17. 9 July 1987

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

18. 9 July 1987

    Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.

    Source: Committee

19. 9 July 1987

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

20. 9 July 1987

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

21. 13 July 1987

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving All Points of Order Against Consideration of the Bill.

    Source: Floor

22. 13 July 1987

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.222 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

23. 14 July 1987

    Vote

    Passed House by Yea-Nay Vote: 371 - 48 (Record Vote No: 269).

    Source: Floor

24. 14 July 1987

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House by Yea-Nay Vote: 371 - 48 (Record Vote No: 269).

    Source: Floor

25. 14 July 1987

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

26. 14 July 1987

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

27. 17 July 1987

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    Source: IntroReferral

28. 16 October 1987

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 380.

    Source: Calendars

29. 16 October 1987

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

30. 16 October 1987

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Sasser with amendments. With written report No. 100-200.

    Source: Committee

31. 23 October 1987

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

32. 27 October 1987

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Sasser; Inouye; Proxmire; Reid; Stennis; Specter; Garn; Stevens; Hatfield.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

33. 27 October 1987

    Vote

    Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 93-0. Record Vote No: 349.

    Source: Floor

34. 27 October 1987

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 93-0. Record Vote No: 349.

    Source: Floor

35. 29 October 1987

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

36. 4 November 1987

    Passed

    House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Hefner, Alexander, Coleman (TX), Thomas (GA), Bevill, Early, Dicks, Fazio, Whitten, Lowery (CA), Edwards (OK), Kolbe, DeLay, Conte.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

37. 4 November 1987

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

38. 4 November 1987

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: NotUsed

39. 22 December 1987

    Committee

    For Further Action See H.J.Res. 395.

    Source: Committee

Votes

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 27 October 1987

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 16 October 1987

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Sponsors

• Rep. Hefner, W. G. (Bill) [D-NC-8] · D · Sponsor
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Related records

• related to → A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1988, and for other purposes.
• related to → A resolution waiving certain points of order against consideration of the bill (H.R. 2906) making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, and for other purposes.
• amends ← An amendment to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Army by $36.77 million to $871,390,000; to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Navy by $18.3 million to $1,362,545,000; to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Air Force by $22.63 million to $1,093,320,000; and, to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Air Force Reserve by $2.85 million to $66,770,000.
• amends ← An amendment to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Army by $83.65 million to $824,510,000; to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Navy by $193.69 million to $1,186,960,000; to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Air Force by $122 million to $993,342,000; to reduce the appropriation for military construction for the Army National Guard by $5 million to $153,052,000; and, to reduce the appropriation for military construction for Defense Agencies by $79.08 million to $485,802,000.
• amends ← An amendment to reduce the total appropriation by an across-the-board 0.9 percent.
• amends ← To restore funds for the White House Communications Agency.
• amends ← To deny funds for projects in the United States that use the engineering, architectural, and construction services of any foreign country that does not provide such services of the United States access to the markets of the foreign country.
• amends ← To provide for a land transfer for an Air National Guard Project at Lambeth Field, Missouri.
• amends ← To establish water systems and family housing improvement projects at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.