[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1317 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1317

To amend the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 to provide 
clarification with respect to the eligibility of certain countries for 
                   United States military assistance.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2003

   Mr. Smith (for himself, Mr. Biden, and Mr. Durbin) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                           Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 to provide 
clarification with respect to the eligibility of certain countries for 
                   United States military assistance.

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

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN COUNTRIES FOR UNITED STATES MILITARY 
              ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 2007(d)(1) of the American Servicemembers' 
Protection Act of 2002 (title II of the 2002 Supplemental 
Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response To Terrorist 
Attacks on the United States (Public Law 107-206; 116 Stat. 905)) is 
amended by inserting ``or a country that has concluded a protocol with 
NATO for the accession of the country to NATO'' before the semicolon.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) takes 
effect on July 1, 2003.
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