Department of Defense Desert Storm Supplemental Authorization and Military Personnel Benefits Act for Fiscal Year 1991

Summary

Department of Defense Desert Storm Supplemental Authorization and Military Personnel Benefits Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Title I: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1991 for Operation Desert Storm - Authorizes supplemental appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY 1991 from the balance of the amount in the Defense Cooperation Account (Cooperation Account) on the date of enactment of this Act, as well as any additional amounts credited to such Account after such date and before October 1, 1992. Requires Cooperation Account funds to be used for: (1) incremental costs associated with Operation Desert Storm; and (2) replenishment of a working capital account created in this title. Establishes for DOD the Desert Storm Working Capital Account (Capital Account). Authorizes appropriations to the Capital Account for FY 1991. Requires Capital Account funds to be used only for incremental costs associated with Operation Desert Storm, but only to such extent that funds for such use are not available in the Cooperation Account. Requires Cooperation Account funds to replenish funds used from the Capital Account. Requires Capital Account funds to revert to the Treasury after termination of such Account upon the end of the Persian Gulf War, but in no event later than September 30, 1992. Authorizes funds from both accounts to be made available for transfer by the Secretary of Defense to authorizations made available to DOD or the Coast Guard for FY 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer between appropriation accounts such sums necessary to defray incremental costs associated with Operation Desert Storm. Requires the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (defense committees) to be notified before such transfers occur. Requires the Comptroller of DOD to submit monthly reports to the defense committees on the cumulative total amounts of such transfers. Title II: Waiver of Personnel Ceilings Affected by Operation Desert Storm - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive any military personnel end strength in such department as prescribed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Allows certain grade strength limitations to be suspended. Requires such Secretary to certify to the defense committees that the exercise of such authority is necessary because of personnel actions relating to Operation Desert Storm. Authorizes additional appropriations to DOD from the Cooperation Account for increases in military personnel costs resulting from the exercise of such waiver and suspension authorities. Title III: Military Personnel Benefits for Members of the Armed Forces Serving During Operation Desert Storm - Part A: Special, Incentive, and Other Pay and Allowances and Miscellaneous Benefits - Increases, as of August 1, 1990, the rate of special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger. Terminates such increase 180 days after termination of the Persian Gulf War. Authorizes the payment of active duty special pay to reserve optometrists, veterinarians, nurse anesthetists, and certain other non-physician health care providers called or ordered to active duty in connection with activities in the Persian Gulf. Authorizes the payment of such special pay to such health care providers who are: (1) called or ordered to active duty for less than one year in connection with Operation Desert Storm; or (2) involuntarily retained on active duty. Entitles survivors of members who die as a result of injury or illness sustained while on active duty during the Persian Gulf War to pay for all accrued leave of such member. (Currently, there are limitations to the authorized build-up of such leave.) Removes the ceiling on savings deposits for service members carried in a missing person status in connection with Operation Desert Storm. Allows a retired member of the armed forces who is ordered to return to active duty in connection with Operation Desert Storm to be ordered to such active duty in the highest grade in which the member previously served on active duty. States that a member ordered to active duty in a grade higher than his or her retired grade shall be deemed to have been promoted to such grade. Establishes a standard death gratuity rate of $6,000 for members of all grades for the period between August 2, 1990, and the termination of the Persian Gulf War. Entitles reserve members ordered to active duty during the Persian Gulf War for specified periods, and their dependents, to certain transitional health care benefits and coverage under military health insurance policies normally authorized only for active duty personnel and their dependents. Outlines availability and applicability requirements. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend to February 15, 1992, the effective date for certain reductions in inpatient mental health services to be implemented under such Act. Authorizes appropriations from the Cooperation Account as necessary for the pay, allowances, and benefits provided under part A of this title. Part B: Family Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide assistance to ensure that families of military personnel serving on active duty obtain needed child care services, with special focus on children of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf or otherwise deployed in connection with Operation Desert Shield. Authorizes appropriations from the Cooperation Account for such purpose. States that such funds are in addition to other funds used for child care programs for members of the the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance to ensure that families of military personnel serving on active duty receive educational assistance and family support services necessary to meet the needs arising out of Operation Desert Storm. Outlines provisions concerning the types of assistance, areas of assistance, and the types of educational and family support assistance to be provided. Authorizes appropriations from the Cooperation Account. Title IV: Reporting on the Costs of Operation Desert Storm - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare periodic reports on the incremental costs associated with Operation Desert Storm and on the amounts of contributions made to the United States by foreign countries to offset such costs. Requires periodic, cumulative, and nonrecurring costs to be reported, as well as offsets to such costs. Specifies cost areas to be included in each such report. Directs the Secretaries of State and the Treasury to jointly prepare periodic reports on contributions made by foreign countries as part of the international response to the Persian Gulf crisis. Title V: Report on the Conduct of the Persian Gulf War - Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the defense committees on the conduct of the Persian Gulf War within 180 days of the cessation of hostilities. Outlines specified areas and objectives concerning which U.S. accomplishments and shortcomings are to be discussed. Requires a preliminary report within 90 days after cessation of such hostilities. Requires each report to contain the number of military and civilian casualties sustained by coalition nations, by Iraq, and by nations not directly participating in such hostilities. Title VI: Miscellaneous Technical Amendments - Makes various technical or conforming amendments to Federal armed forces provisions, military pay and allowances provisions, National Guard provisions, and various public laws and specified Acts. Title VII: Definitions - Defines specified terms and phrases used in this Act.

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Timeline

1. 6 March 1991

   Calendars

   Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 28.

   Source: Calendars

2. 6 March 1991

   Reported

   Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Nunn. With written report No. 102-18.

   Source: Committee

3. 6 March 1991

   Reported

   Committee on Armed Services ordered to be reported an original measure.

   Source: Committee

4. 6 March 1991

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 13 March 1991

   Floor

   Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

   Source: Floor

6. 14 March 1991

   Floor

   Considered by Senate.

   Source: Floor

7. 14 March 1991

   Vote

   Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 97-1. Record Vote No: 30.

   Source: Floor

8. 19 March 1991

   Floor

   Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 1175 as an amendment.

   Source: Floor

9. 19 March 1991

   Floor

   Held at the desk.

   Source: Floor

10. 19 March 1991

    Floor

    Received in the House.

    Source: Floor

Votes

Versions

• Engrossed in Senate · undated · Official file
• Placed on Calendar Senate · undated · Official file
• Public Print · undated · Official file

Documents

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• Engrossed in Senate (text)

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• Passed Senate amended

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• Introduced in Senate

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Sponsors

• Sen. Nunn, Sam [D-GA] · D · Sponsor
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Related records

• related to → Department of Defense Desert Storm Supplemental Authorization and Military Personnel Benefits Act for Fiscal Year 1991
• related to → An Act to provide military personnel benefits for persons serving during Operation Desert Storm, and for other purposes.
• related to → An Act to authorize supplemental appropriations for the Department of Defense for Operation Desert Storm, and for other purposes.