[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5428 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5428

To amend the Federal Charter of the Boy Scouts of America in title 36, 
United States Code, to ratify the authority of the Secretary of Defense 
and military installations and units of the Armed Forces to officially 
   sponsor units of the Boy Scouts of America serving dependents of 
members of the Armed Forces and to make facilities of the Department of 
   Defense available for Boy Scout meetings and activities, such as 
                national and world Boy Scout Jamborees.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2004

 Mr. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Charter of the Boy Scouts of America in title 36, 
United States Code, to ratify the authority of the Secretary of Defense 
and military installations and units of the Armed Forces to officially 
   sponsor units of the Boy Scouts of America serving dependents of 
members of the Armed Forces and to make facilities of the Department of 
   Defense available for Boy Scout meetings and activities, such as 
                national and world Boy Scout Jamborees.

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

SECTION 1. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPONSORSHIP AND SUPPORT FOR BOY SCOUTS 
              OF AMERICA.

    Section 30904 of title 36, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Federal Support.--The Secretary of Defense, and military 
installations and units of the Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of 
the Secretary of Defense, may support the corporation by officially 
sponsoring units of the Boy Scouts of America serving dependents of 
members of the Armed Forces and by making facilities of the Department 
of Defense available for the meetings of such Boy Scout units and for 
other Boy Scout activities, such as national and world Boy Scout 
Jamborees.''.
                                 <all>