H.R. 4837 Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes
Title:Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Knollenberg, Joe [MI-9] (introduced 7/15/2004) Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Appropriations
House Reports: 108-607
Related Bills: H.RES.732, S.2674
Latest Major Action: 7/22/2004 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 420 - 1 (Roll no. 417).
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SUMMARY AS OF:
7/15/2004--Introduced.
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2005 - Appropriates funds for FY 2005 for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD), namely: (1) military construction for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, DOD, the Army and Air National Guards, and the Army, Naval, and Air Force reserves; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (3) family housing and related operation and maintenance for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force; (4) family housing construction and operation and maintenance, defense-wide; (5) the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund; (6) defense-wide chemical demilitarization construction; and (7) the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990.
Specifies restrictions and authorizations regarding the use of funds appropriated in this Act and in other military construction appropriations Acts.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the appropriate congressional committees 30 days in advance of the plans and scope of any military exercise involving U.S. personnel if construction costs are anticipated to exceed $100,000.
Provides for the transfer of lapsed unobligated military construction and family housing funds into the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense account.
Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional appropriations committees on actions proposed by DOD to encourage other member nations of NATO, Japan, Korea, and other U.S. allies bordering the Arabian Sea to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States.
Prohibits this Act's funds from being obligated for Partnership for Peace programs in the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.
Prohibits NATO Security Investment funds from being used for conducting missile defense studies.
Designates the fitness center at Homestead Air Base, Florida, as the Sam Johnson Fitness Center.
