[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1569 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1569


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 1999

                                Received

                             July 14, 1999

     Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 AN ACT


 
To prohibit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Defense 
  from being used for the deployment of ground elements of the United 
 States Armed Forces in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia unless that 
             deployment is specifically authorized by law.

    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 Operations in the Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia Limitation Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FUNDS FOR 
              DEPLOYMENT OF UNITED STATES GROUND FORCES TO THE FEDERAL 
              REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA WITHOUT SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATION BY 
              LAW.

    (a) In General.--None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
available to the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended for 
the deployment of ground elements of the United States Armed Forces in 
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia unless such deployment is 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the enactment of this 
Act.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--The prohibition in subsection (a) shall 
not apply with respect to the initiation of missions specifically 
limited to rescuing United States military personnel or United States 
citizens in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or rescuing military 
personnel of another member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a result of 
operations as a member of an air crew.

            Passed the House of Representatives April 28, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.