[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1310 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1310

  To prohibit any policy relating to benefits provided to spouses of 
members of the Armed Forces that would make such benefits available to 
   homosexual partners of members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 1993

    Mr. Baker of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit any policy relating to benefits provided to spouses of 
members of the Armed Forces that would make such benefits available to 
   homosexual partners of members of the Armed Forces, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Spouse Benefits 
Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. MILITARY SPOUSE BENEFITS NOT TO BE PROVIDED TO HOMOSEXUAL 
              PARTNERS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.

    (a) Prohibition.--Military spouse benefits may not be provided in 
the case of a person asserted to be the spouse or partner of a member 
of the Armed Forces if that person and the member of the Armed Forces 
are of the same sex.
    (b) Military Spouse Benefits Defined.--For purposes of this 
section, the term ``military spouse benefits'' means benefits provided 
by the Department of Defense (or the Department of Transportation with 
respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the 
Navy) to any person by reason of that person's status as the spouse of 
a member of the Armed Forces.

SEC. 3. HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT.

    Any Department of Defense directive or military department 
regulation that is applicable to homosexual conduct, and any policy 
under any such directive or regulation, may not be modified to any way 
sanction or condone homosexual conduct.

SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON TRAINING SESSIONS.

    The Secretary of Defense may not conduct or sponsor, or require or 
encourage the attendance of members of the Armed Forces at, any 
training session, meeting, or program that has the purpose of 
instructing or training members of the Armed Forces to be more 
accepting of persons who are homosexuals.

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