Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993

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Introduced

29 June 1992

Last action

6 October 1992 · President

Status

Became Public Law No: 102-396.

Summary

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 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: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy (including a transfer of funds), Marine Corps, Air Force, the defense agencies, the respective reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the Army's National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration (including a transfer of funds), humanitarian assistance, support and services for the World University Games, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 1994 World Cup USA, and for real property maintenance, defense. Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for other procurement. Appropriates funds to the Navy for the procurement of aircraft, weapons, and shipbuilding and conversion (including a transfer of funds) and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) National Guard and Reserve equipment; (2) procurement by the defense agencies; and (3) Defense Production Act purchases. Title IV: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for research, development, test, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Test and Evaluation) and the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for the Defense Business Operations Fund. Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) medical and health care programs of the Department of Defense (DOD); (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense (including a transfer of funds); and (4) expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978. Title VII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) the Edward R. Roybal Foundation (including a transfer of funds). Title VIII: Defense Reinvestment for Economic Growth - Earmarks funds appropriated in this Act for defense reinvestment programs as authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993. Title IX: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Exempts during FY 1992 DOD personnel from provisions of law prohibiting the employment of non-U.S. citizens. Provides that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act may remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly so provided. Prohibits the obligation of more than 20 percent of the funds appropriated by this Act during the last two months of the fiscal year, except as specified. Prohibits the use of appropriations for the procurement of any food, clothing, specified cloth (including cotton, silk, and wool) or synthetic fabrics, or specified metals not grown, produced, or processed within the United States, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, in the national interest and with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to transfer and merge specified working capital funds. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress of all such transfers. Limits the cash balances which may be maintained in such funds. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use any available funds to implement cost-effective agreements for required heating facility modernization in the Kaiserslautern Military Community in the Federal Republic of Germany, under certain conditions. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) the initiation of a special access program without prior notification to the Senate and House Appropriations (appropriations) and Armed Services (defense) Committees; (2) the preparation of a request to the appropriations committees for a reprogramming of funds, except as specified; (3) certain claims for physician or provider reimbursement for medical services provided under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) in excess of those allowed for FY 1992; (4) programs of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) beyond FY 1992, with a specified exception; (5) initiating a multiyear contract that employs economic order quantity procurement in excess of specified amounts, unless proper congressional notification is given; (6) any intelligence or special activity different from an activity previously justified to the Congress unless the Secretary has notified the appropriations committees of the intent to make such funds available; (7) converting certain military technician positions to positions to be held by persons in active Guard or Reserve status if such conversion would reduce the number of military technicians below a specified amount; or (8) including civilian military technicians in any administratively-imposed freeze on civilian positions. Requires governments of Indian tribes to be treated as State and local governments for purposes of the disposition of real property recommended for closure. Eliminates during FY 1993 the requirement that the Congress must authorize by law the end-strengths for civilian personnel in DOD. Prohibits setting any end-strength limitations for such personnel during FY 1993. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) congressional lobbying; (2) the pay of certain nonmilitary Army Reserve technicians; and (3) floating storage of petroleum or petroleum products in non-U.S. vessels. Permits the appropriation of funds for humanitarian and civic assistance costs incident to authorized operations of the armed forces. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force to retain in active status until age 60 certain officers who need such status in order to maintain employment as a National Guard or Reserve technician. Permits the use of operation and maintenance funds provided under this Act for studies and demonstration projects relating to the delivery of military health and medical care. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to make contributions to the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund for educational assistance for a member of the armed forces who enlists for less than three years or receives an enlistment bonus. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the basic pay and allowances of a member of the Army participating as a full-time student and receiving benefits through the Secretary of Veterans Affairs when time spent as a full-time student is credited toward completion of a service commitment. Limits the availability of appropriations to specified percentages of postsecondary educational costs for off-duty training of military personnel. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for conversion to contractor performance of an activity or function of DOD that is currently performed by more than ten civilian DOD employees until a cost-analysis on such performance is completed and certified to the appropriations committees. Prohibits funds available to DOD from being used to award a competitive procurement contract for any round of 120mm mortar ammunition unless such round has successfully passed certain testing and has a validated technical data package to support its procurement. Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated in this Act to the Army for the procurement of such mortars or ammunition if manufactured outside the United States. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the payment of salaries of any persons who authorize the transfer of unobligated or deobligated funds into the Reserve for Contingencies of the CIA. Requires funds appropriated under this Act for CIA construction projects to remain available until expended. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to use specified funds to charter ships for use as auxiliary minesweepers, under specified conditions. Directs DOD to competitively award contracts for the geographical expansion of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative in Florida, Washington, Oregon, and Alexandria, Louisiana, under specified conditions. Permits the use of appropriated funds to fully utilize the facilities at the U.S. Army Engineer's Waterways Experiment Station, with a specified exception. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used by a military department to modify an aircraft, weapon, ship, or other item of equipment if such item is to be retired or otherwise disposed of within five years after completion of the modification, with specified exceptions. Specifies the definition of "program, project, and activity" for appropriations contained in this Act for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Earmarks specified funds appropriated to the Army under this Act for the Reserve Component Automation System (RCAS), with certain expenditure limitations. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for fixed-price contracts exceeding $10,000,000 for the development of a major defense system or subsystem, unless the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and the Secretary of Defense take certain action. Provides that monetary limitations on the purchase price of passenger motor vehicles shall not apply to vehicles purchased for certain intelligence activities. Earmarks specified funds for the construction of classified military projects within the continental United States. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the procurement of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chains manufactured outside the United States. Authorizes DOD to transfer prior-year unobligated balances to the operations and maintenance appropriations of the reserve components in order to provide military technician and DOD medical personnel pay and medical programs the same exemption from the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act as is currently granted to other military personnel accounts, with specified exceptions. Prohibits any funds available to the Department of the Navy from being used to enter into any contract for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of any naval vessel on the west coast which includes interport differential charges as a factor for the award of such contract. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act for CHAMPUS programs from being used to reimburse any health care provider for inpatient mental health services in excess of specified periods (depending on one's age), or for care received when a patient is referred to a provider of such care by a medical or health care professional having an economic interest in the facility to which the patient is referred, with specified exceptions. Requires the designs of specified military aircraft to incorporate certain standard avionics specifications by no later than 1998. Provides for the accounting treatment of expenses incurred by the United States in monitoring Soviet implementation of the INF Treaty. Provides funds from this Act for transportation to an annual meeting in the United States of the next-of-kin of individuals who have been prisoners of war or missing in action from the Vietnam era. Prohibits funds available to the Department of the Navy from being used to implement certain automated data processing or information technology facility consolidation plans or to make reductions or transfers of personnel in connection with such plans until a congressional notification requirement has been met by the Secretary. Prohibits funds from this Act from being obligated or expended to prepare, or to assist any defense contractor in preparing, any material with respect to economic or employment impact in a State of an acquisition program for which all research, development, testing and evaluation has not been completed. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being available for a contract for studies, analyses, or consulting services entered into without competition on the basis of an unsolicited proposal unless the head of the activity responsible for the procurement makes certain determinations with respect to such contract. Prohibits the use of DOD funds under this Act to dispose of specified unserviceable M1 rifles and carbines. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to pay more than 50 percent of a lump-sum reenlistment bonus. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to assign a supervisor's title or grade when the number of people he or she supervises is considered as a basis for such determination. Prohibits Navy funds appropriated by this or any other Act from being used to carry out an electromagnetic pulse program in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with the Electromagnetic Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships (EMPRESS) program until the Secretary has made certain certifications to the Congress concerning the importance of such program. Limits the funds available for a health care demonstration project regarding chiropractic care required by the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to pay health care providers under CHAMPUS for services determined to be not medically or psychologically necessary. Requires sums for FY 1993 pay raises for programs funded by this Act to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. Prohibits funds available in this Act from being used for: (1) payments under a DOD contract with the Louisiana State University Medical Center involving the use of cats for wound research; or (2) conducting bone trauma research at the Letterman Army Institute of Research until the Secretary of the Army makes certain certifications. Requires the Secretary to include in any base closure and realignment plan submitted to the Congress a complete review for FY 1992 through 1996 which includes specified information relating to force structures and cost savings after such closure or realignment. Limits the amount of funds to be used for any single relocation of an organization, unit, activity, or function of DOD into or within the National Capital Region. Provides for the waiver of such limitation in certain cases. Directs the Secretary to ensure that at least 50 percent of the Joint Service Missile Mission is in place at the Letterkenny Army Depot by the time that Systems Integration Management Activity and Depot Systems Command are scheduled to relocate to Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used for producing more than two-thirds of the liquid gas requirements in-house at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Allows appropriated funds to be used for the pay, allowances, and benefits of Federal or District of Columbia employees who are members of the reserve or National Guard, who perform Federal or military service to enforce the law or provide assistance to civil authorities in the protection or saving of life or property, and who request and are granted leave. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used to: (1) initiate or continue any cost study pursuant to OMB Circular A-76; or (2) begin closing a military treatment facility unless the Secretary notifies the appropriations committees. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act for the American Forces Information Service from being used for any national or international political or psychological activities. Prohibits any unobligated balances available during FY 1992 from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund from being obligated or expended to finance any grant or contract to conduct R&D activities for the development or production of advanced materials, unless amounts are specifically appropriated in a subsequent appropriations Act. States as the policy of the United States the opposition to restrictive trades or boycotts fostered or imposed by foreign countries against other countries friendly to the United States or against any other U.S. person. Prohibits any DOD prime contract in excess of the small purchase threshold from being awarded to a foreign person, company, or entity unless such entity certifies to the Secretary that it does not comply with the secondary Arab boycott of Israel. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such certification requirement when necessary in the national security interest, but to notify the Congress quarterly of any contract in which a waiver was granted. Outlines exceptions to the prohibition. Requires all DOD software to be written in the programming language Ada in the absence of a special exemption. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the wage rates of certain civilian employees hired for certain health care occupations as authorized by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the direct care of veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prohibits funds available to DOD from being used for the training or utilization of psychologists in the prescription of drugs, except upon the findings and recommendations of a specified Army Blue Ribbon Panel. Prohibits this Act's funds from being used to reduce the military or civilian medical and medical support personnel end strength at a base undergoing a partial closure or realignment, where more than one joint command is located, below the September 30, 1991, level. Earmarks funds made available in this Act for the Civil Air Patrol. Prohibits funds appropriated or made available in this Act from being used to reduce or disestablish the operation of the 815th Tactical Airlift Squadron of the Air Force Reserve if such action would reduce the WC-130 weather reconnaissance mission below the levels funded in this Act. Allows withdrawal credits to be made during FY 1992 by the Defense Business Operations Fund to the credit of current applicable appropriations of the DOD activity in connection with the acquisition of supplies that are repairable at a repair depot and that are capitalized into such Fund as the result of certain management changes. Requires, in the use of funds for the procurement of supplies or services appropriated by this Act, that qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped be afforded the maximum opportunity to participate as subcontractors and suppliers in the performance of DOD contracts. Provides that small business concerns participating in a subcontracting plan for the participation of small businesses with DOD under the Small Business Act shall be given credit toward meeting the subcontracting goal required under such Act for any purchases made from qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped. Establishes under the direction and control of the Attorney General the National Drug Intelligence Center, to coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence from all national security and law enforcement agencies, and produce information regarding the structure, membership, finances, communications, and activities of drug trafficking organizations. Provides funding for the Center from DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities appropriations. Authorizes the Navy, during FY 1992, to provide notice to exercise options under the LEASAT program for the next fiscal year. Earmarks specified Navy R&D funds for the V-22 aircraft program. Specifies the manner in which prior-year appropriations for the V-22 program shall be expended. Directs the Secretary to provide the Congress with the total funding plan and schedule to complete the Phase II V-22 full-scale engineering development program. Directs the Secretary to include sufficient funds to complete development, manufacture, and testing of six production representative aircraft under the development program and to produce sufficient V-22 aircraft to meet the operational requirements of the Marine Corps and other services in all DOD future year planning documents and budget estimates. Provides that, during FY 1992, third party payments for health care provided in a military medical facility shall be available for the use of such facility and shall be over and above the facility's direct budget amount. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to: (1) procure a Multibeam Sonar Mapping System not manufactured in the United States; or (2) fill the commander's position at any military medical facility with a health care professional unless such candidate demonstrates professional administrative skills. Earmarks funds appropriated by this Act for the Defense Health Program to continue CHAMPUS benefits until age 65 for a former member of the armed forces who is entitled to retired or retainer pay (or a dependent of such member) and who becomes eligible for hospital insurance benefits under part A of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act solely on the grounds of physical disability. Provides limitations on the coverage of such expenses. Authorizes the Secretary to accept, during FY 1992, burdensharing contributions in the form of money from Japan, Korea, and Kuwait for the costs of local national employees, supplies, and services of DOD, to be credited to operation and maintenance appropriations and available for the same purposes and time period. Requires the Secretary to report quarterly to the Congress on contributions accepted. Prohibits obligations in excess of 70 percent of sales from DOD stock funds from being incurred against such stock funds during FY 1992. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or made available in this Act to reduce or disestablish the operation of the Navy Reserve P-3 squadrons below the levels funded in this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to obligate funds appropriated for FY 1991 through 1993 for the modernization of such aircraft that such Secretary intends to keep in the fleet for more than five years. Earmarks specified prior-year appropriated funds for payment of claims to U.S. military and civilian personnel for damages incurred as a result of the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being obligated or expended for any contract or grant with a university or other higher educational institution unless such grant or contract is audited under certain Federal Acquisition Regulation procedures. Requires any such institution to respond fully to any requests for financial information in connection with such grant or contract. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act to finance activities of DOD federally-funded R&D centers from being obligated or expended for such center if a member of its board of directors or trustees simultaneously serves on the board or trustees of a profit-making company under contract to DOD unless such center has a DOD-approved conflict of interests policy for its members. Mandates that certain previously required reports be submitted to the appropriations committees before funds from this Act may be used for such centers. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to: (1) comply with or implement any provision issued in compliance with a memorandum of the Deputy Secretary of Defense concerning debarment from defense contracts for felony criminal convictions; or (2) procure carbon, alloy or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned facility or DOD property which was not melted and rolled in the United States or Canada (with a waiver allowed on a case-by-case basis). Prohibits more than 15 percent of the funds available to DOD for sealift from being used to acquire ships constructed in foreign shipyards. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1992, to acquire the modification, depot maintenance, and repair of aircraft, vehicles, and vessels as well as the production of components and other defense-related articles through competition between DOD depot maintenance activities and private firms. Requires the Secretary, if he finds after consultation with the U.S. Trade Representative that a foreign country has violated a reciprocal defense procurement agreement by discriminating against certain types of products produced in the United States, to rescind the Secretary's blanket waiver of the Buy American Act with respect to such types of products produced in that foreign country. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY 1993. Prohibits any funds appropriated or made available in this or any DOD appropriations Act during FY 1992 from being obligated for the procurement of ball or roller bearings other than in accordance with a specified Defense Federal Acquisition regulation. Transfers specified FY 1991 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds to Navy operations and maintenance for use in connection with the USS John F. Kennedy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Directs the Air Force to use FY 1992 R&D funds to execute the cleanup of uncontrolled hazardous waste contamination affecting a sale parcel of land at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. Outlines procedures to be followed in the event that the purchaser of such sale parcel exercises its option to withdraw from such sale. Directs the Air Force to be reimbursed from the sale proceeds for cleanup expenses in excess of a specified amount. Provides for the conveyance by DOD of certain buildings and easements with respect to such parcel. Authorizes the Secretary, when considered to be in the best interest of the United States, to cancel up to $2,500 of a debt owed to the United States by a member or former member of the armed forces if it was incurred in connection with Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Transfers a specified cash balance in the Defense Business Operations Fund to DOD appropriations available for energy conservation improvement projects under the Department of Defense Energy Conservation Improvement Program. Allows appropriations contained in this Act that remain available at the end of the current fiscal year as a result of energy cost savings realized by DOD to remain available for obligation to the facilities responsible for such savings. Authorizes the Secretary to provide optional summer school programs authorized under the Defense Dependents Education Act of 1978 and to charge a fee for participation in such programs. Makes available through FY 1993 unobligated balances of the funds appropriated in the FY 1992 Department of Defense Appropriations Act for the World University Games and the 1992 Summer Olympics. Authorizes the Secretary during FY 1992 to transfer available funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to the appropriation for environmental restoration, defense. Allows after December 31, 1992, voluntary separation incentives to be paid in such amounts as necessary from assets of the Voluntary Separation Incentive Fund. Requires amounts deposited during FY 1992 and 1993 to special accounts established for the transfer or disposal of DOD real property and the leasing of non-excess DOD property to be appropriated and available for facility maintenance and repair and for environmental restoration at the military installation in which the property was sold, transferred, or leased. Prohibits any funds available to DOD in this Act from being used to award a contract for the procurement of four-ton dolly jacks manufactured outside of the United States. Authorizes DOD to transfer up to a specified amount of the funds appropriated under this Act for certain purposes authorized in the Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1992. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to a certain amount of DOD funds to the appropriate accounts within DOD for the transportation of humanitarian assistance to the former Soviet Union in order to address emergency conditions. Prohibits funds appropriated or made available in this Act from being used for the procurement of high purity quartz yarn or fiber, or related products or materials, not produced in the United States. Provides for the waiver of such prohibition on a case-by-case basis. Directs the Secretary to ensure that such yarn or fiber produced by domestic sources is tested for qualification for use or incorporation in the production of weapon systems and in weapons development programs. Provides a purchase preference to certain domestic producers of high carbon ferrochromium and ferromanganese from chromite and manganese ore authorized for disposal from the National Defense Stockpile. Prohibits funds available to DOD from being used to implement a specified defense management report decision pertaining to conventional ammunition which has the objective of financing such ammunition out of any funds other than those specifically appropriated or made available for the procurement of ammunition. Prohibits funds made available to DOD from being used: (1) for an Abrams tank upgrade program that does not first modify specified tank configurations; (2) in connection with any action within DOD which would support or lead to the purchase or acquisition of LTV Aerospace and Defense Company by any foreign person; and (3) to procure or acquire handguns or handgun ammunition except the 9mm DOD standard handgun and ammunition. Directs the Secretary, if he determines that a person has been convicted of intentionally affixing a "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in America, to debar such person from contracting with the Government for at least three and up to five years. Authorizes FY 1992 DOD appropriations to be used to reimburse a reserve member who is not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances and who occupies transient government housing while performing active duty for training or inactive duty training. Allows such funds to also be used for the civilian pay, allowances, and benefits of a National Guard technician who serves on active duty for participation outside the United States in airlift or refueling operations and who requests and is granted leave. Provides other conditions for such payments. Directs the Secretary to negotiate with a military medical treatment facility to assume operation of the Silas B. Hays Army Community Hospital at Fort Ord, California, in a manner consistent with the managed-care delivery model required under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act or made available to DOD from being used to operate, maintain, and pay the salaries of the employees assigned or detailed to the Defense Printing Service Management Office. Earmarks specified funds appropriated by this Act for paying the Administrator of General Services charges established under the Federal Property Administrative Services Act of 1949 for space and services. States that, as of September 1, 1993, no funds appropriated by this Act or made available to DOD may be used for payment of compensation of members of the Senior Executive Service assigned to DOD in excess of 95 percent of such personnel assigned to or serving in DOD on September 30, 1992. Requires the issuance of specified amounts from the Defense Business Operations Fund for supplies, equipment, and material for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Prohibits funds from this Act from being used by DOD or the Navy to consolidate the Naval Biodynamics Laboratory until 90 days after the General Accounting Office has submitted a report to the appropriations committees on plans to consolidate R&D laboratories. Directs the Comptroller General to issue a report on the Navy's accounting practices at its nuclear shipyards. Requires the Director of the Air National Guard, during FY 1992, to establish a command, control, communications, and intelligence planning office manned by three full-time Air Guard officers of specified rank. States that as of September 1, 1993, no funds appropriated by this Act shall be available for the payment of compensation of personnel assigned to or serving in the National Foreign Intelligence Program in excess of 98 percent of such personnel assigned to or serving in such Program on September 30, 1992. Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act or made available to DOD from being deposited into the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund for renovation, construction, or any purposes other than the actual and necessary day-to-day operation of the Reservation or the performance of engineering studies and designs for renovation of the existing structure. Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act from being used to promulgate or enforce a certain DOD policy prohibiting non-funded abortions in military medical treatment facilities outside the continental United States or any other policies having the same substance.

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Timeline

29 January 1992
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Defense.
Source: Committee
29 January 1992
Introduced
Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
3 March 1992
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
7 May 1992
Committee
Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
15 June 1992
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
Source: Committee
18 June 1992
Committee
Final Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
Source: Committee
29 June 1992
Reported
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Source: Committee
29 June 1992
Calendars
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 346.
Source: Calendars
29 June 1992
Reported
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 102-627, by Mr. Murtha.
Source: Committee
29 June 1992
Reported
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 102-627, by Mr. Murtha.
Source: Committee
29 June 1992
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
29 June 1992
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
1 July 1992
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 508 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5504. All points of order against consideration of the bill for failure to comply with the provisions of clause 7 of rule XXI are waived. During consideration, all points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 or 6 of rule XXI are waived. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments. Points of order under clause 2 of rule XXI against the amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution are waived. Amendments printed in the report and any amendments thereto shall be debatable for the time specified in the report, equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Passed
The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 5504.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Passed
On motion to rise and report Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
Mr. Murtha moved for the Committee of the Whole to rise and report.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
The Speaker designated the Honorable James L. Oberstar to act as Chairman of the Committee.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Passed
On motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
Mr. Murtha moved to resolve into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Vote
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 328 - 94 (Roll no. 266).
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 328 - 94 (Roll no. 266).
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5504. All points of order against consideration of the bill for failure to comply with the provisions of clause 7 of rule XXI are waived. During consideration, all points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 or 6 of rule XXI are waived. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments. Points of order under clause 2 of rule XXI against the amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution are waived. Amendments printed in the report and any amendments thereto shall be debatable for the time specified in the report, equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Floor
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 508.
Source: Floor
2 July 1992
Passed
Rule H. Res. 508 passed House.
Source: Floor
21 July 1992
Introduced
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
16 September 1992
Committee
Subcommittee on Defense. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.
Source: Committee
17 September 1992
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Inouye with amendments. With written report No. 102-408.
Source: Committee
17 September 1992
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 677.
Source: Calendars
17 September 1992
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Inouye with amendments. With written report No. 102-408.
Source: Committee
21 September 1992
Floor
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Source: Floor
22 September 1992
Floor
Considered by Senate.
Source: Floor
23 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Inouye; Hollings; Johnston; Byrd; Leahy; Sasser; DeConcini; Bumpers; Lautenberg; Harkin; Stevens; Garn; Kasten; D'Amato; Rudman; Cochran; Specter; Domenici; Hatfield.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
23 September 1992
Vote
Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 86-10. Record Vote No: 229.
Source: Floor
23 September 1992
Vote
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 86-10. Record Vote No: 229.
Source: Floor
24 September 1992
Passed
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Murtha moved, pursuant to rule XXVIII, clause 6(a), that the conference committee meetings be closed to the public during the consideration of classified information.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
The Speaker appointed conferees: Murtha, Dicks, Wilson, Hefner, AuCoin, Sabo, Dixon, Dwyer, Whitten, McDade, Young (FL), Miller (OH), Livingston, and Lewis (CA).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 September 1992
Passed
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
24 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Murtha asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to a conference.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
25 September 1992
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
29 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
29 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
30 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
30 September 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
2 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
2 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 102-1015 filed.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
5 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Passed
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Passed
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Passed
Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Passed
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by voice vote.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
The previous question was ordered without objection.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Floor
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 602, the House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report.
Source: Floor
5 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Mr. Murtha brought up conference report H. Rept. 102-1015 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 602.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
5 October 1992
Passed
Rule H. Res. 602 passed House.
Source: Floor
5 October 1992
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 602 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 5504. Upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider the conference report accompanying H.R. 5504. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived.
Source: Floor
5 October 1992
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report H. Rept. 102-1015 filed.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
6 October 1992
Became law
Became Public Law No: 102-396.
Source: President
6 October 1992
Became law
Signed by President.
Source: BecameLaw
6 October 1992
President
Signed by President.
Source: President
6 October 1992
Floor
Presented to President.
Source: Floor
6 October 1992
President
Presented to President.
Source: President

Votes

23 September 1992 · Bill Passed · On Passage of the Bill H.R. 5504 · Bill Passed · Official source

Yes 86 · No 10 · Abstain — · Absent/not voting 4

Showing the first 8 recorded positions. Vote totals above are complete.

Versions

Engrossed Amendment Senate · undated · Official file
Engrossed in House · undated · Official file
Enrolled Bill · undated · Official file
Public Print · undated · Official file
Referred in Senate · undated · Official file
Reported in House · undated · Official file
Reported to Senate · undated · Official file

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Reported to Senate (text)
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Reported in House (text)
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Referred in Senate (text)
Referred in Senate · EN
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Public Print (text)
Public Print · EN
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Enrolled Bill (text)
Enrolled Bill · EN
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Engrossed in House (text)
Engrossed in House · EN
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Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)
Engrossed Amendment Senate · EN
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Public Law (PDF)
Public Law · EN · 7 October 1992
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Conference report filed in House
summary · EN · 5 October 1992
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Passed House amended
summary · EN · 2 July 1992
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Introduced in House
summary · EN · 29 June 1992
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/5504
Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/102/hr/5504
us · 102-hr-5504 · source updated 7 January 2026