[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 918 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 918

To require the Secretary of Defense to implement fully by September 30, 
  2004, requirements for additional Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil 
                             Support Teams.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 11, 2003

Mr. Feingold (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Reid, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Johnson, 
  Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Kohl, and Mr. Jeffords) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Defense to implement fully by September 30, 
  2004, requirements for additional Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil 
                             Support Teams.

    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 ``Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil 
Support Team Implementation Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL WEAPONS OF 
              MASS DESTRUCTION CIVIL SUPPORT TEAMS.

    (a) Deadline for Full Implementation.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall fully implement the requirements regarding the establishment and 
number of Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams under section 
1403(a) of the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2003 (Public Law 107-314; 116 Stat. 2676; 10 U.S.C. 12310 note) 
not later than September 30, 2004.
    (b) Personnel.--In order to meet the requirement in subsection (a), 
the authorized end strengths for members of the National Guard serving 
on full-time National Guard duty as of September 30, 2004, shall be 
increased over the number of such members otherwise authorized by law 
by the number of such members as follows:
            (1) For the Army National Guard of the United States, 414 
        members of the National Guard.
            (2) For the Air National Guard of the United States, 92 
        members of the National Guard.
    (c) Funding.--(1) From the aggregate amount authorized to be 
appropriated for procurement for the Armed Forces by title I of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, there shall be 
available (and may be transferred to other authorizations of 
appropriations, as appropriate) such sums as the Secretary considers 
appropriate to meet the requirement in subsection (a) in accordance 
with this section.
    (2) The Secretary shall allocate among the accounts for procurement 
for the Armed Forces for fiscal year 2004 the reduction in amounts 
available for such procurement under title I of that Act by reason of 
the availability of funds under paragraph (1) to meet the requirement 
in subsection (a).
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