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105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4056
To prohibit the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available for
the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1999 or any subsequent
fiscal year for the deployment of any United States ground combat
forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina after June 30, 1999,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 11, 1998
Mr. SESSIONS (for himself, Mr. DELAY, Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. ARMEY, Ms. PRYCE
of Ohio, Mr. HYDE, Mr. ARCHER, Mr. KASICH, Mr. HASTERT, Mr. SOLO-
MON, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CUNNINGHAM,
Mr. BACHUS, Mr. BONILLA, Mr. DICKEY, Mr. CANADY of Florida, Mr.
FOLEY, Mr. FOX of Pennsylvania, Mr. MCCRERY, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr.
HAYWORTH, Mr. POMBO, Mr. SMITH of Michigan, Mr. ROHRABACHER,
Mr. SALMON, Mr. SCARBOROUGH, Mr. EWING, Mr. SMITH of Oregon, Mr.
MCINTOSH, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. SOUDER, Mr.
COMBEST, Mr. SNOWBARGER, Mr. TRAFICANT, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr.
COOK, Mr. HORN, Mr. WALSH, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. BAKER, Mr. LIN-
DER, Mr. BLUNT, Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. BARRETT of Nebraska, Mr. PICKER-
ING, Mr. HOBSON, Mr. LAZIO of New York, Mr. WAMP, Mr. KINGSTON,
Mr. BURR
of North Carolina, Mr. EHRLICH, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr.
MCINNIS, Mr. TALENT, Mr. PAUL, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. PAXON, Mr.
GOODLING, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. ISTOOK,
Mr. RYUN, Mr. NUSSLE, Mr. BARR of Georgia, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. SENSEN-
BRENNER, Mr. HERGER, Mr. REDMOND, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. YOUNG of
Alaska, Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. HILL,
Mr. BUNNING of Kentucky, Mr. JONES, and Mr. METCALF) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on National Secu-
rity, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To prohibit the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made
available for the Department of Defense for fiscal year
1999 or any subsequent fiscal year for the deployment
of any United States ground combat forces in the Repub-
lic of Bosnia and Herzegovina after June 30, 1999,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bosnia Force Realign-
ment Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) United States ground combat forces in the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina have accom-
plished the military mission assigned to them as a
component of the Implementation Force and the
Stabilization Force.
(2) The continuing and open-ended commitment
of United States ground combat forces in the Re-
public of Bosnia and Herzegovina is subject to the
oversight authority of the Congress.
(3) The Congress may limit the use of appro-
priated funds to create the conditions for an orderly
and honorable withdrawal of United States ground
combat forces from the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
(4) On November 27, 1995, the President af-
firmed that United States participation in the multi-
national military Implementation Force in the Re-
public of Bosnia and Herzegovina would terminate
in approximately 1 year from that date.
(5) The President declared the expiration date
of the mandate for the Implementation Force to be
December 20, 1996.
(6) The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff expressed confidence
that the Implementation Force would complete its
mission in approximately one year.
(7) The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff expressed the critical im-
portance of establishing a firm deadline, in the ab-
sence of which there is a potential for expansion of
the mission of United States ground combat forces.
(8) On October 3, 1996, the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the intention of the
United States Administration to delay the removal
of United States ground combat forces from the Re-
public of Bosnia and Herzegovina until March 1997.
(9) In November 1996 the President announced
his intention to further extend the deployment of
United States ground combat forces in the Republic
of Bosnia and Herzegovina until June 1998.
(10) The President did not request authoriza-
tion by the Congress of a policy that would result in
the further deployment of United States ground
combat forces in the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina until June 1998.
(11) Notwithstanding the passage of two pre-
viously established deadlines, the reaffirmation of
those deadlines by senior national security officials,
and the endorsement by those same national security
officials of the importance of having a deadline as a
hedge against an expanded mission, the President
announced on December 17, 1997, that establishing
a deadline had been a mistake and that United
States ground combat forces were committed to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led
mission in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
for the indefinite future.
(12) NATO military forces have increased their
participation in law enforcement, particularly police
activities, 
in 
the 
Republic 
of 
Bosnia 
and
Herzegovina.
(13) United States military commanders of the
NATO-led mission in the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina have stated on several occasions that,
in accordance with the Dayton Peace Agreement, the
principal responsibility for such law enforcement and
police activities lies with the Bosnian parties them-
selves.
SEC. 3. WITHDRAWAL OF UNITED STATES GROUND COM-
BAT FORCES FROM THE REPUBLIC OF BOS-
NIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
(a) LIMITATION.—No funds appropriated or other-
wise made available for the Department of Defense for
fiscal year 1999 or any subsequent fiscal year may be used
for the deployment of any United States ground combat
forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina after
June 30, 1999.
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The limitation in subsection (a)
shall not apply—
(1) to the extent necessary to support a limited
number of United States military personnel suffi-
cient only to protect United States diplomatic facili-
ties in existence on the date of the enactment of this
Act; or
(2) to the extent necessary to support non-com-
bat military personnel sufficient only to advise the
commanders of the NATO peacekeeping operations
in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(c) LIMITATION ON SUPPORT FOR LAW ENFORCE-
MENT ACTIVITIES.—No funds appropriated or otherwise
made available for the Department of Defense for fiscal
year 1999 or any subsequent fiscal year may be used for
any of the following activities after June 30, 1999:
(1) Conduct of, or direct support for, law en-
forcement and police activities in the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, except for the training of
law enforcement personnel or to prevent imminent
loss of life.
(2) Conduct of, or support for, any activity in
the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that may
have the effect of jeopardizing the primary mission
of the NATO-led force in preventing armed conflict
between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Republika Srpska (‘‘Bosnian Entities’’).
(3) The transfer of refugees within the Republic
of Bosnia and Herzegovina that, in the opinion of
the commander of NATO Forces involved in such
transfer—
(A) has as one of its purposes the acquisi-
tion of control by a Bosnian Entity of territory
allocated to the other Bosnian Entity under the
Dayton Peace Agreement; or
(B) may expose United States Armed
Forces to substantial risk to their personal
safety.
(4) The implementation of any decision to
change the legal status of any territory within the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina unless expressly
agreed to by all signatories to the Dayton Peace
Agreement.
(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to restrict the authority of the
President under the Constitution to protect the lives of
United States citizens.
SEC. 4. PRESIDENTIAL REPORT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 1, 1998,
the President shall prepare and transmit to the Congress
a report on the progress of the withdrawal of United
States ground combat forces from the Republic of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report under sub-
section (a) shall include an identification of the specific
steps taken by the United States Government to transfer
the United States portion of the peacekeeping mission in
the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to European al-
lied nations or organizations.
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) DAYTON
PEACE
AGREEMENT.—The term
‘‘Dayton Peace Agreement’’ means the General
Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, initialed by the parties in Dayton,
Ohio, on November 21, 1995, and signed in Paris on
December 14, 1995.
(2) IMPLEMENTATION FORCE.—The term ‘‘Im-
plementation Force’’ means the NATO-led multi-
national military force in the Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina (commonly referred to as ‘‘IFOR’’), au-
thorized under the Dayton Peace Agreement.
(3) NATO.—The term ‘‘NATO’’ means the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(4) STABILIZATION
FORCE.—The term ‘‘Sta-
bilization Force’’ means the United Nations-led fol-
low-on force to the Implementation Force in the Re-
public of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other coun-
tries in the region (commonly referred to as
‘‘SFOR’’), authorized under United Nations Secu-
rity Council Resolution 1088 (December 12, 1996).
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