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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2743
To require a reduction in the annual Department of Defense and Department
of Transportation budgets by the total amount expended by those depart-
ments for pay and benefits and costs of investigation, administrative
discharge, and any legal fees pertaining to such for any member of
the Armed Forces discharged during the preceding fiscal year on the
basis of homosexual status or conduct for any grounds that do not
apply equally to members of the Armed Forces who are heterosexual.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 26, 1993
Ms. WOOLSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Armed Services and Merchant Marine and Fisheries
A BILL
To require a reduction in the annual Department of Defense
and Department of Transportation budgets by the total
amount expended by those departments for pay and ben-
efits and costs of investigation, administrative discharge,
and any legal fees pertaining to such for any member
of the Armed Forces discharged during the preceding
fiscal year on the basis of homosexual status or conduct
for any grounds that do not apply equally to members
of the Armed Forces who are heterosexual.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REDUCTIONS IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
FUNDS RESULTING FROM DISCHARGING HO-
MOSEXUAL SERVICEMEMBERS.
(a) REDUCTION IN FUNDS.—(1) The total amount
made available to the Department of Defense for obliga-
tion for any fiscal year shall be reduced by the sum of
the amounts determined under subsection (b) with respect
to each member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine
Corps who during the preceding fiscal year was discharged
for homosexuality.
(2) For any fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall
allocate the reduction required under paragraph (1)
among the accounts and funds of the Department of De-
fense as the Secretary determines. Upon determining the
allocation of such reduction, the Secretary shall notify the
Secretary of the Treasury of the reductions to be made
in the various accounts and funds of the Department, and
the amounts available for obligation in those accounts and
funds shall be reduced accordingly.
(3) The Secretary of Defense shall notify Congress
of the allocations made under paragraph (2) for any fiscal
year.
(b) COMPUTATION.—In the case of each member of
the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps who is dis-
charged for homosexuality, the Secretary of Defense shall
compute the total lifetime costs expended by the Depart-
ment of Defense with respect to that member. Such costs
shall include recruitment and recruitment incentives, pay
and allowances, bonuses, meals, health-care, education
payment of accrual charges to the Department of Defense
Military Retirement Fund, transportation, training, and
equipment provided specifically to that member, the costs
of separation of the member (including any costs of inves-
tigation, discharge, and trial), and any other costs in-
curred by the Department of Defense that are directly at-
tributable to that member’s service.
SEC. 2. REDUCTIONS IN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPOR-
TATION FUNDS RESULTING FROM DISCHARG-
ING HOMOSEXUAL SERVICEMEMBERS.
(a) REDUCTION IN FUNDS.—(1) The total amount
made available to the Department of Transportation for
obligation for any fiscal year shall be reduced by the sum
of the amounts determined under subsection (b) with re-
spect to each member of the Coast Guard who during the
preceding fiscal year was discharged for homosexuality.
(2) For any fiscal year, the Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall allocate the reduction required under para-
graph (1) among the accounts and funds of the Depart-
ment of Transportation as the Secretary determines. Upon
determining the allocation of such reduction, the Secretary
shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the reductions
to be made in the various accounts and funds of the De-
partment, and the amounts available for obligation in
those accounts and funds shall be reduced accordingly.
(3) The Secretary of Transportation shall notify Con-
gress of the allocations made under paragraph (2) for any
fiscal year.
(b) COMPUTATION.—In the case of each member of
the Coast Guard who is discharged for homosexuality, the
Secretary of Transportation shall compute the total life-
time costs expended by the Department of Transportation
with respect to that member. Such costs shall include re-
cruitment and recruitment incentives, pay and allowances,
bonuses, meals, health-care, transportation, training, edu-
cation, and equipment provided specifically to that mem-
ber, the costs of separation of the member (including any
costs of investigation, discharge and trial), and any other
costs incurred by the Department of Transportation that
are directly attributable to that member’s service.
SEC. 3. DISCHARGE FOR HOMOSEXUALITY.
For purpose of this Act, a servicemember who is dis-
charged from the Armed Forces shall be considered as
having been discharged for homosexuality if the discharge
is an involuntary discharge on the basis of homosexual sta-
tus or on the basis of conduct as a homosexual for any
grounds that do not apply equally to members of the
Armed Forces who are heterosexual.
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