[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2936 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2936

    To provide that if a member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty 
 Organization, the Republic of Korea, or Japan does not agree, by the 
 end of fiscal year 1997, to contribute to the United States for each 
  fiscal year an amount equal to the full direct costs to the United 
States of United States military forces permanently stationed ashore in 
   that country for that fiscal year, all such United States forces 
 assigned in that country shall be withdrawn not later than the end of 
      fiscal year 1999 and to provide that the amount of all such 
contributions and the amount of savings from such withdrawals shall be 
        deposited in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 1996

 Mr. Chapman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees 
      on National Security and Ways and Means, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide that if a member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty 
 Organization, the Republic of Korea, or Japan does not agree, by the 
 end of fiscal year 1997, to contribute to the United States for each 
  fiscal year an amount equal to the full direct costs to the United 
States of United States military forces permanently stationed ashore in 
   that country for that fiscal year, all such United States forces 
 assigned in that country shall be withdrawn not later than the end of 
      fiscal year 1999 and to provide that the amount of all such 
contributions and the amount of savings from such withdrawals shall be 
        deposited in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT FOR TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM NATO COUNTRIES AND 
              JAPAN SUBJECT TO REVISED HOST-NATION AGREEMENTS.

    (a) Burdensharing Agreements.--(1) As soon as practicable after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President should enter into 
negotiations for purposes of revising the host-nation agreement with 
each foreign country described in paragraph (2). A revised host-nation 
agreement is an agreement under which the foreign country agrees to 
contribute to the United States, beginning on or before September 30, 
1997, for each fiscal year an amount equal to the total of all direct 
costs (including personnel costs) incurred by the United States for 
that fiscal year related to the presence of all United States military 
personnel permanently stationed ashore in that country. The agreement 
shall provide for the assumption of such costs over the one-year period 
beginning on October 1, 1996, and ending on September 30, 1997.
    (2) Paragraph (1) applies with respect to--
            (A) each country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
        (other than the United States);
            (B) the Republic of Korea; and
            (C) Japan.
    (b) Troop Withdrawal.--If a revised host-nation agreement described 
in subsection (a) is not entered into by September 30, 1997, with a 
country to which subsection (a) applies, the President shall order the 
withdrawal of all United States Armed Forces assigned to permanent duty 
ashore in that country. The President may provide for the phased-in 
withdrawal of such forces over the two-year period beginning on October 
1, 1997, and ending on September 30, 1999.

SEC. 2. USE OF HOST-NATION CONTRIBUTIONS AND USE OF SAVINGS.

    (a) Use of Contributions.--Any amount received by the United States 
by reason of a revised host-nation agreement under section 1(a) shall 
be deposited in and credited to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
Fund.
    (b) Use of Savings Attributable to Troop Withdrawals.--For each 
fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 1997, the Secretary of Defense 
shall determine the amount of savings to the Department of Defense, if 
any, attributable to the provisions of section 1(b). For any fiscal 
year for which there are such savings (as determined by the Secretary), 
the Secretary shall, at such point during the fiscal year as the amount 
of such savings have been determined by the Secretary, transfer from 
amounts available to the Department of Defense for that fiscal year to 
the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund the amount of such savings 
(as determined by the Secretary).
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