Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1984

Summary

Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1984 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for retired military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, including the reserves. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense agencies, including their respective stock and industrial funds, reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, claims against the Department of Defense, and the Court of Military Appeals. Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for Department Support provided to the 1984 games of the XXIII Olympiad. Title IV: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other equipment and materials. Includes transfers of funds for specified procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Navy of aircraft, weapons, conversion and shipbuilding of vessels (including transfers of funds). Prohibits the use of funds for naval vessel construction in foreign shipyards' and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft, missiles, and other equipment and materials. Includes transfers of funds for aircraft procurement. Prohibits the obligation of funds under the four major FY 1984 production contracts for the B-1B bomber if the current dollar costs would exceed the Air Force's original current dollar estimates. Appropriates funds for National Guard, Reserve, and Defense Agencies' procurement. Appropriates funds for purchases of materials or minerals under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Makes all such appropriations available through FY 1986. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for research, development, tests, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense agencies. Earmarks funds for the integration of the Hellfire missile on the UH-60 helicopter, the Mark 92 fire control system, and the Marine Corps Assault Vehicles program. Permits the merger of appropriations. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation. Makes all such appropriations available through FY 1985. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for excess payments in foreign currencies for expenses in carrying out the programs of the Department of Defense. Title VII: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services to contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of the service departments to procure the services of experts and consultants if advantageous to the national defense. Exempts the Defense Department from the prohibition against employing non-citizens. Makes appropriations available for specified expenses of the department, including motor vehicle insurance, maintenance of prisoners-of-war, school transportation of military dependents, maintenance of facilities, ships, and equipment, exchange fees, and dependents' medical treatment. Directs the Secretary of Defense and each agency of the Department to assist American small and minority-owned businesses in their participation in defense contracts. Permits the President to exempt appropriations available for military functions from the requirement that appropriations be distributed so as to prevent deficiencies or need for supplemental funding. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the cost of any increases in military personnel required by the President. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress monthly on the exercise of this authority. Prohibits the use of appropriations for specified practices, including: (1) operation of commissaries; (2) proficiency flying; (3) excess household goods shippage and storage; (4) the procurement of articles not produced in the United States, except as specified; (5) certain defense contractor advertising; (6) research involving uninformed or nonvoluntary human beings as experimental subjects; (7) certain requests to the Appropriations Committees for reprogramming of funds; (8) certain medical services or treatments under CHAMPUS; (9) pay and allowances in excess of specified levels; (10) certain noncompetitive contracts; (11) certain multiyear procurement contracts with an unfunded contingent liability in excess of a specified level; (12) certain leasing and chartering of vessels, aircraft, or vehicles; (13) the purchase of animals to study the medical treatment of wounds; and (14) the transfer of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools from the Department of Defense to the Department of Education. Title VIII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the Intelligence Community Staff and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 9 December 1983

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 18 November 1983

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• House receded and concurred with amendment

  summary · EN · 18 November 1983

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 8 November 1983

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 2 November 1983

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 20 October 1983

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