[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1598 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1598

 To reclassify the cost of international peacekeeping activities from 
   the international affairs budget function to the national defense 
budget function and to express the sense of Congress that there should 
be included in the Department of Defense budget for each fiscal year a 
minimum level of funding for international humanitarian assistance and 
                        peacekeeping activities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1993

  Mr. Penny introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Government Operations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reclassify the cost of international peacekeeping activities from 
   the international affairs budget function to the national defense 
budget function and to express the sense of Congress that there should 
be included in the Department of Defense budget for each fiscal year a 
minimum level of funding for international humanitarian assistance and 
                        peacekeeping activities.

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

SECTION 1. TRANSFER TO PAYMENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 
              INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

    Effective with fiscal year 1994, the budget account ``Contributions 
to International Peacekeeping Activities'' shall be transferred from 
budget function 150 (international affairs) to budget function 050 
(national defense) and appropriations for such account shall be made 
to, and shall be administered by, the Department of Defense.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM AMOUNT TO BE REQUESTED IN ANNUAL DEFENSE BUDGET.

    It is the sense of Congress that, of the total amount requested in 
the President's budget for any fiscal year for military functions of 
the Department of Defense, a total of 1 percent should be for 
international humanitarian assistance activities of the Department of 
Defense and for appropriations to the ``Contributions to International 
Peacekeeping Activities'' account.

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