a cost not to exceed production and distribution expenses, 
and payments from such recordings shall be credited back 
to the appropriation enabling such expenses.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 
‘‘988. Uniform military band performance authority.’’. 
(2) Sections 3634, 6223, and 8634 of such title are 
repealed. 
SEC. 573. RECOVERY OF MISSING MILITARY PROPERTY BY 
THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 661 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new sections: 
‘‘§ 7864. Property accountability: regulations 
‘‘The Secretary of the Navy may prescribe regula-
tions for the accounting for Navy and Marine Corps prop-
erty and the fixing of responsibility for that property. 
‘‘§ 7865. Individual equipment: unauthorized disposi-
tion 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—No member of the Navy or the 
Marine Corps may sell, lend, pledge, barter, or give any 
clothing, arms, or equipment furnished him by the United 
States to any person other than a member of the Navy 
or the Marine Corps, or an officer of the United States, 
authorized to receive it. 
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‘‘(b) SEIZURE OF PROPERTY.—If a member of the 
Navy or the Marine Corps has disposed of property in vio-
lation of subsection (a) and it is in the possession of a 
person who is neither a member of the Navy or the Marine 
Corps, nor an officer of the United States, authorized to 
receive it, that person has no right to or interest in the 
property, and any civil or military officer of the United 
States may seize it, wherever found. Possession of such 
property furnished by the United States to a member of 
the Navy or the Marine Corps, by a person who is neither 
a member of the Navy or the Marine Corps, nor an officer 
of the United States, is prima facie evidence that it has 
been disposed of in violation of subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) RETENTION OF SEIZED PROPERTY.—If an offi-
cer who seizes property under subsection (b) is not author-
ized to retain it for the United States, he shall deliver it 
to a person who is authorized to retain it.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding 
at the end the following new items: 
‘‘7864. Property accountability; regulations. 
‘‘7865. Individual equipment; unauthorized disposition.’’. 
SEC. 574. FLEXIBLE MANAGEMENT OF DEPLOYMENTS OF 
MEMBERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 991 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) MANAGEMENT
RESPONSIBILITIES.—(1) The 
Secretary concerned shall prescribe regulations to manage 
the deployment of a member of the armed forces in his 
military department to ensure that the member is not de-
ployed, or continued in a deployment, beyond prescribed 
high-deployment thresholds for the consecutive days for 
which the member may be deployed and the total number 
of days on which the member has been deployed out of 
the preceding 730 days. The regulations shall— 
‘‘(A) specify the high-deployment thresholds; 
‘‘(B) establish procedures to ensure that mem-
bers are aware of their deployment days; and 
‘‘(C) specify the approval process which must 
take place before a member may be deployed, or con-
tinued in a deployment, beyond the high-deployment 
thresholds. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall approve— 
‘‘(A) the high-deployment thresholds for the 
military departments; and 
‘‘(B) the procedures for the payment of hard-
ship duty pay under section 305 of title 37 for those 
members of the armed forces who experience hard-
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ship duty by being deployed in excess of approved 
high-deployment thresholds.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘a training exercise or’’ 
and inserting ‘‘an’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘as designated by the 
Secretary 
concerned’’ 
after 
‘‘cir-
cumstances’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (B); 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
of subparagraph (C) and inserting a semi-
colon; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraphs: 
‘‘(D) 
performing 
non-operational 
tem-
porary duty including conferences and semi-
nars; or 
‘‘(E) participating in training or exercises 
as designated by the Secretary concerned.’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) in the first sentence— 
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(I) by striking ‘‘The Secretary of 
Defense’’ and inserting ‘‘The Sec-
retary concerned’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘with the ap-
proval of the Secretary of Defense’’ 
after ‘‘(2)’’; and 
(ii) by striking the second sentence; 
(3) by striking subsection (d); and 
(4) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (d). 
(b) REPEAL
OF HIGH-DEPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE 
AND STRENGTHENING OF HARDSHIP DUTY PAY.— 
(1) Section 436 of title 37, United States Code, 
is repealed. 
(2) The text of section 305 of such title is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—A member of a uniformed service 
who is entitled to basic pay may be paid special pay under 
this section while the member is performing duty in the 
United States or outside the United States that is des-
ignated by the Secretary of Defense as hardship duty. 
Special pay payable under this section may be paid on a 
monthly basis or in a lump sum. 
‘‘(b) WRITTEN AGREEMENT.—The Secretary con-
cerned shall require a member performing service in an 
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assignment designated under subsection (a) to enter into 
a written agreement with the Secretary in order to qualify 
for the payment of special pay on a lump sum basis under 
this section. The written agreement shall specify the pe-
riod for which the special pay will be paid to the member 
and, subject to subsection (c), the amount of the lump 
sum of the special pay. 
‘‘(c) MAXIMUM RATE OR AMOUNT.—(1) The max-
imum monthly rate of special pay payable to a member 
on a monthly basis under this section is $1,500. 
‘‘(2) The amount of the lump sum payment of special 
pay payable to a member on a lump sum basis under this 
section may not exceed an amount equal to the product 
of— 
‘‘(A) the maximum monthly rate authorized 
under paragraph (1) at the time of the written 
agreement of the member under subsection (b); and 
‘‘(B) the number of months in the period for 
which hardship duty pay will be paid pursuant to 
the agreement. 
‘‘(3) If a member extends an assignment specified in 
an agreement with the Secretary under subsection (b), 
special pay for the period of the extension may be paid 
under this section on a monthly basis or in a lump sum 
in accordance with this section. 
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