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<item congress="113" measure-type="s" measure-number="444" measure-id="id113s444" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2013-03-04" update-date="2013-03-19">
<title>Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013</title>
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<action-date>2013-03-04</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 - Appropriates funds for FY2013 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (O&amp;M), including for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, environmental restoration, overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid, former Soviet Union cooperative threat reduction, and the DOD Acquisition Workforce Development Fund; (3) procurement, including for aircraft, missile, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and purchases under the Defense Production Act of 1950; (4) research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&amp;E); (5) Defense Working Capital Funds and the National Defense Sealift Fund; (6) the Defense Health Program; (7) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (8) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (9) the Office of the Inspector General; (10) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (11) the Intelligence Community Management Account; and (12) overseas contingency operations and related activities, including military, reserve, and National Guard personnel, O&amp;M, the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund, the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund, procurement, RDT&amp;E, and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund. </p> <p>Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds.</p> <p>Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.</p>]]></summary-text>
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