[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 374 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 374

    To authorize the operation by the National Guard of counterdrug 
                    schools, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 15, 2001

Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Harkin, and Mr. Cochran) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the operation by the National Guard of counterdrug 
                    schools, 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. NATIONAL GUARD COUNTERDRUG SCHOOLS.

    (a) Authority To Operate.--Under such regulations as the Secretary 
of Defense may prescribe, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may 
establish and operate not more than five schools (to be known generally 
as ``National Guard counterdrug schools'') for the provision by the 
National Guard of training in drug interdiction and counter-drug 
activities, and drug demand reduction activities, to the personnel of 
the following:
            (1) Federal agencies.
            (2) State and local law enforcement agencies.
            (3) Community-based organizations engaged in such 
        activities.
            (4) Other non-Federal governmental and private entities and 
        organizations engaged in such activities.
    (b) Counterdrug Schools Specified.--The National Guard counterdrug 
schools operated under the authority in subsection (a) are as follows:
            (1) The National Interagency Civil-Military Institute 
        (NICI), San Luis Obispo, California.
            (2) The Multi-Jurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force 
        Training (MCTFT), St. Petersburg, Florida.
            (3) The Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC), to be 
        established in Johnston, Iowa.
            (4) The Regional Counterdrug Training Academy (RCTA), 
        Meridian, Mississippi.
            (5) The Northeast Regional Counterdrug Training Center 
        (NCTC), Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
    (c) Use of National Guard Personnel.--(1) To the extent provided 
for in the State drug interdiction and counter-drug activities plan of 
a State in which a National Guard counterdrug school is located, 
personnel of the National Guard of that State who are ordered to 
perform full-time National Guard duty authorized under section 112(b) 
of that title 32, United States Code, may provide training referred to 
in subsection (a) at that school.
    (2) In this subsection, the term ``State drug interdiction and 
counter-drug activities plan'', in the case of a State, means the 
current plan submitted by the Governor of the State to the Secretary of 
Defense under section 112 of title 32, United States Code.
    (d) Annual Reports on Activities.--(1) Not later than February 1, 
2002, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
Congress a report on the activities of the National Guard counterdrug 
schools.
    (2) Each report under paragraph (1) shall set forth the following:
            (A) The amount made available for each National Guard 
        counterdrug school during the fiscal year ending in the year 
        preceding the year in which such report is submitted.
            (B) A description of the activities of each National Guard 
        counterdrug school during the year preceding the year in which 
        such report is submitted.
    (3) The report under paragraph (1) in 2002 shall set forth, in 
addition to the matters described in paragraph (2), a description of 
the activities relating to the establishment of the Midwest Counterdrug 
Training Center in Johnston, Iowa.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--(1) There is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for the 
National Guard for fiscal year 2002, $25,000,000 for purposes of the 
National Guard counterdrug schools in that fiscal year.
    (2) The amount authorized to be appropriated by paragraph (1) is in 
addition to any other amount authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Defense for the National Guard for fiscal year 2002.
    (f) Availability of Funds.--(1) Of the amount authorized to be 
appropriated by subsection (e)(1)--
            (A) $4,000,000 shall be available for the National 
        Interagency Civil-Military Institute, San Luis Obispo, 
        California;
            (B) $8,000,000 shall be available for the Multi-
        Jurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training, St. Petersburg, 
        Florida;
            (C) $3,000,000 shall be available for the Midwest 
        Counterdrug Training Center, Johnston, Iowa;
            (D) $5,000,000 shall be available for the Regional 
        Counterdrug Training Academy, Meridian, Mississippi; and
            (E) $5,000,000 shall be available for the Northeast 
        Regional Counterdrug Training Center, Fort Indiantown Gap, 
        Pennsylvania.
    (2) Amounts available under paragraph (1) shall remain available 
until expended.
    (g) Funding for Fiscal Years After Fiscal Year 2002.--(1) The 
budget of the President that is submitted to Congress under section 
1105 of title 31, United States Code, for any fiscal year after fiscal 
year 2002 shall set forth as a separate budget item the amount 
requested for such fiscal year for the National Guard counterdrug 
schools.
    (2) It is the sense of Congress that--
            (A) the amount authorized to appropriated for the National 
        Guard counterdrug schools for any fiscal year after fiscal year 
        2002 should not be less than the amount authorized to be 
        appropriated for those schools for fiscal year 2002 by 
        subsection (e)(1), in constant fiscal year 2002 dollars; and
            (B) the amount made available to each National Guard 
        counterdrug school for any fiscal year after fiscal year 2002 
        should not be less than the amount made available for such 
        school for fiscal year 2002 by subsection (f)(1), in constant 
        fiscal year 2002 dollars, except that the amount made available 
        for the Midwest Counterdrug Training School should not be less 
        than $5,000,000, in constant fiscal year 2002 dollars.
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