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H.R. 4453 (103rd): Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995
- Introduced:
- May 19, 1994 (103rd Congress, 1993–1994)
- Sponsor:
- Rep. Willie “Bill” Hefner [D-NC8]
- Status:
- Signed by the President
- Slip Law:
- This bill became Pub.L. 103-307.
The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. H.R. stands for House of Representatives bill.
Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
8/1/1994--House receded and concurred with amendment.
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995 - Appropriates funds for FY 1995 for military construction functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for:
(1) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force;
(2) military construction, DOD (including a transfer of funds);
(3) military construction for the Army and Air National Guards;
(4) military construction for the Army, Navy, and Air Force Reserves (with a transfer of funds for the Army Reserve);
(5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure;
(6) family housing for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force;
(7) family housing, DOD; and
(8) the Base Realignment and Closure Accounts, Parts I through III (including a transfer of funds).
Section
101
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Specifies authorized uses and prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act, including a prohibition on the use of funds for military construction in the U.S. territories and possessions to award a contract exceeding $1 million to a foreign contractor.
Section
113
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Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide certain congressional advance notification of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction amounts for such exercise are expected to exceed $100,000.
Section
114
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Provides for the transfer of certain funds from the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing.
Section
119
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Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense account.
Section
120
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Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, and Korea to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States.
Section
121
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Authorizes a specified transfer of funds from the DOD Base Closure Account.
Section
122
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Includes damage from the 1993 Guam earthquake within authorized uses of FY 1993 appropriations for family housing, Navy and Marine Corps.
Section
123
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Cancels a specified amount of funding for DOD's military construction and family housing accounts during FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to allocate such amounts for procurement and procurement-related expenses.
Section
124
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Requires compliance with the Buy American Act for all uses of funds appropriated under this Act.
Section
126
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Makes ineligible for the receipt of any contract or subcontract made with funds appropriated under this Act any person who intentionally affixes a "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that was not made in the United States.
Section
127
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Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Seattle, Washington, all rights and interest to the Naval Reserve Center in Seattle. Requires a suitable replacement for the Center.
Section
128
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Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Department of the Interior the Army Research Laboratory facility in Woodbridge, Virginia.
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The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:
Slip Laws
Slip laws refer to enacted bills and joint resolutions in their original form as enacted by Congress, that is, before other laws amend them. Slip laws are cited as “Public Law XXX-YYY”, where XXX is the number of the Congress in which the bill or resolution was introduced.
- Public Law 100-526:
S. 2749 (100th): Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act - Public Law 101-510:
H.R. 4739 (101st): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Public Law 102-368:
H.R. 5620 (102nd): Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992, Including Disaster Assistance to Meet the Present Emergencies Arising from the Consequences of Hurricane Andrew, Typhoon Omar, Hurricane Iniki and Other Natural Disasters, and Additi
United States Code
The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)
- Title 10: ARMED FORCES
- Subtitle A: General Military Law
- Part IV: SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
- Chapter 169: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
- Subchapter I: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
- Section 2806: Contributions for North Atlantic Treaty Organizations Security Investment
- Subchapter II: MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
- Section 2831: Military family housing management account
- Title 23: HIGHWAYS
- Chapter 2: OTHER HIGHWAYS
- Section 210: Defense access roads
- Other Citations
- 41 U.S.C. 10a-10c
- 41 U.S.C. 403(2)
Other Citations
- 10 U.S.C. Chapter 133