NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR …

1 1 COMMITTEE PRINT " ! 114 THCONGRESS 1st Session NO. 2 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 LEGISLATIVE TEXT AND JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY S. 1356 PUBLIC LAW 114 92 NOVEMBER 2015 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:27 Jan 08, 2016 Jkt 097637 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6012 Sfmt 6012 E:\HR\OC\ C637congress.

2 #13emcdonald on DSK67 QTVN1 PROD with HEARINGNATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:27 Jan 08, 2016 Jkt 097637 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\ C637emcdonald on DSK67 QTVN1 PROD with GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICEWASHINGTON : 1 97 637 COMMITTEE PRINT " ! 114 THCONGRESS 1st Session NO. 2 2015 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 LEGISLATIVE TEXT AND JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY S.

3 1356 PUBLIC LAW 114 92 NOVEMBER 2015 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:27 Jan 08, 2016 Jkt 097637 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4012 Sfmt 4012 E:\HR\OC\ C637congress.#13emcdonald on DSK67 QTVN1 PROD with HEARING(II) HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ONEHUNDREDFOURTEENTHCONGRESS WILLIAM M. MAC THORNBERRY, Texas, Chairman WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia JEFF MILLER, Florida JOE WILSON, South Carolina FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey ROB BISHOP, Utah MICHAEL R.

4 TURNER, Ohio JOHN KLINE, Minnesota MIKE ROGERS, Alabama TRENT FRANKS, Arizona BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia DUNCAN HUNTER, California JOHN FLEMING, Louisiana MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri JOSEPH J. HECK, Nevada AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia MO BROOKS, Alabama RICHARD B. NUGENT, Florida PAUL COOK, California JIM BRIDENSTINE, Oklahoma BRAD R. WENSTRUP, Ohio JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana BRADLEY BYRNE, Alabama SAM GRAVES, Missouri RYAN K.

5 ZINKE, Montana ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York MARTHA MCSALLY, Arizona STEPHEN KNIGHT, California THOMAS MACARTHUR, New Jersey STEVE RUSSELL, Oklahoma ADAM SMITH, Washington LORETTA SANCHEZ, California ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania SUSAN A. DAVIS, California JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island RICK LARSEN, Washington JIM COOPER, Tennessee MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts JOHN GARAMENDI, California HENRY C. HANK JOHNSON, JR., Georgia JACKIE SPEIER, California JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois SCOTT H.

6 PETERS, California MARC A. VEASEY, Texas TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota BETO O ROURKE, Texas DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey RUBEN GALLEGO, Arizona MARK TAKAI, Hawaii GWEN GRAHAM, Florida BRAD ASHFORD, Nebraska SETH MOULTON, Massachusetts PETE AGUILAR, California ROBERTL. SIMMONSII, Staff Director ZACHSTEACY, Director, Legislative Operations VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:27 Jan 08, 2016 Jkt 097637 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\ C637emcdonald on DSK67 QTVN1 PROD with HEARING(III) NOTEFROM THEDIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVEOPERATIONS This committee print consists of the enrolled text and explana-tory material for the NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (S.)

7 1356; Public Law 114 92). On May 15, 2015, the House of Representatives passed 1735, the NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION Act for Fiscal Year 2016, and on June 18, 2015, the Senate passed its version of 1735. The House and Senate convened a conference committee to rec-oncile the differences between the two versions of the bill. On Sep-tember 29, 2015, Chairman William M. Mac Thornberry filed the conference report to accompany 1735 (H. Rept. 114 270) in the House. On October 1, 2015, the House agreed to the conference report to accompany 1735, and on October 7, 2015, the con-ference report was agreed to in the Senate.

8 On October 22, 2015, 1735 was vetoed by the President and was returned to the House (H. Doc. 114 70). On October 28, 2015, the House passed 1314, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, and on October 30, 2015, the Senate also passed 1314. The President signed the bill on November 2, 2015. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (Public Law 114 74) did not fund Budget Function 050 to the level requested by the Presi-dent in the fiscal year 2016 budget submission, and as agreed to by the conferees and authorized in 1735.

9 This Act (Public Law 114 92) and the material found in this committee print are the product of an agreement between the House Committee on Armed Services and the Senate Committee on Armed Services on 1735 to conform to the funding levels in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The agreement includes a re-duction of $ billion from the level authorized in 1735. The resulting agreement was brought to the House floor in the form of an amendment to S. 1356. On November 5, 2015, the House sus-pended the rules and passed S.

10 1356, as amended, by a vote of 370 58 (Roll no. 618). On November 10, 2015, the Senate agreed to the House amendment to S. 1356 by a vote of 91 3 (Record Vote Number: 301). The President signed the legislation on November 25, 2015, and it became Public Law 114 92. Because the agreed-upon language was brought to the House in the form of an amendment to S. 1356, there is no conference report and no formal joint explanatory statement of the conference com-mittee for S. 1356. Instead, Chairman William M. Mac Thorn-berry and Chairman John McCain submitted a Joint Explanatory Statement to Accompany S.