Signed by President Bill Clinton

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report that appropriates $266.35 billion to the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy for defense related activities.

Highlights:

• Increases uniformed service members' basic pay by 3 percent and basic allowance for quarters by 4.6 percent.

• Prohibits the sale of sexually explicit material on US military property.

• Increases the amount of time before a unit commander must report a missing person from 48 hours to 10 days.

• Includes colon and prostate cancer screening and pap smears and mammograms as preventative care available to service members.

• Allows multi-year procurement contracts for Army Tactical Missile System and the Javelin Missile System.

• Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to order all retired military personnel to active duty during war or a national emergency as declared by the President or Congress.

• Requires the President and the Committee on Nonproliferation to develop a program that includes specific plans for "counter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction", "plans for training and equipping Federal, State and local officials for managing a crisis involving a use or threatened us of a weapon of mass destruction", and other specific plans.

• $91.99 billion for the operation and maintenance of the Department of Defense, including $364.9 million for "Cooperative Threat Reduction" in the Former Soviet Union.

• $70.06 billion for military personnel.

• $45.27 billion for procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, ammunition and other equipment.

• $37.3 billion for research, development, test and evaluation, including $1.84 billion for the Ballistic Missile Defense Program.

• $11.58 billion for defense activities of the Department of Energy.

• $9.82 billion for military construction, land acquisition and military family housing.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report that appropriates $266.35 billion to the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy for defense related activities.

Highlights:

• Increases uniformed service members' basic pay by 3 percent and basic allowance for quarters by 4.6 percent.

• Prohibits the sale of sexually explicit material on US military property.

• Increases the amount of time before a unit commander must report a missing person from 48 hours to 10 days.

• Includes colon and prostate cancer screening and pap smears and mammograms as preventative care available to service members.

• Allows multi-year procurement contracts for Army Tactical Missile System and the Javelin Missile System.

• Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to order all retired military personnel to active duty during war or a national emergency as declared by the President or Congress.

• Requires the President and the Committee on Nonproliferation to develop a program that includes specific plans for "counter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction", "plans for training and equipping Federal, State and local officials for managing a crisis involving a use or threatened us of a weapon of mass destruction", and other specific plans.

• $91.99 billion for the operation and maintenance of the Department of Defense, including $364.9 million for "Cooperative Threat Reduction" in the Former Soviet Union.

• $70.06 billion for military personnel.

• $45.27 billion for procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, ammunition and other equipment.

• $37.3 billion for research, development, test and evaluation, including $1.84 billion for the Ballistic Missile Defense Program.

• $11.58 billion for defense activities of the Department of Energy.

• $9.82 billion for military construction, land acquisition and military family housing.

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $267.21 billion for Department of Defense and Department of Energy for defense related activities.

Highlights:

• Bans homosexuals from serving in the Armed Forces by reinstating regulations in effect prior to January 19, 1993, including allowing questioning potential new entrants about their sexuality.

• Calls for the immediate and mandatory discharge of any member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps who is HIV-positive, unless they have 15 years of creditable service.

• Increases uniformed service members' basic pay by 3% and basic allowance for quarters by 4.6%.

• Allows Secretary of the Army to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for Army Tactical Missile System (Army TACMS).

• Includes colon and prostate cancer screening and pap smears and mammograms as preventative care available to service members.

• Prohibits the sale of sexually explicit material on US military property under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense.

• Establishes a Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States.

• $92.86 billion for the operation and maintenance of the Department of Defense.

• $70.21 billion for military personnel.

• $47.16 billion for procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, ammunition and other equipment.

• $35.54 billion for research, development, test and evaluation.

• $11.37 billion for defense activities of the Department of Energy.

• $9.9 billion for military construction, land acquisition and military family housing.

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text