National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

Bill: 110-s-567
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Afghanistan
Air force
Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Annuities
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Arrest
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Aviation insurance
Ballistic missile defenses
Biennial budgets
Bombs
Cemeteries and funerals
Charter airlines
Chemical warfare
Child abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Claims
Coast guard
College teachers
Commemorations
Commerce
Conferences
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cultural property
Defense budgets
Defense burdensharing
Defense procurement
Dentists
Department of Defense
Disability retirement
District courts
Divorce
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Early retirement
East Asia
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee rights
Energy
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Explosives
Families
Family violence
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fire fighters
Flight training
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign exchange
Freedom of information
Geodesy
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government employees' life insurance
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government travel
Hawaii
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health care fraud
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human rights
Immigration
Infantry
Informers
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
International cooperation
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Land transfers
Law
Leave of absence
Legal services
Liability for environmental damages
Maintenance and repair
Marines
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical personnel
Middle East and North Africa
Military agreements
Military aircraft
Military assistance
Military aviation
Military base closures
Military bases
Military civic action
Military command and control
Military construction operations
Military dependents
Military discharges
Military education
Military housing
Military intelligence
Military law
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Military readiness
Military research
Missing in action
Monuments and memorials
Music
National Guard
Naturalization
Navy
Nevada
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear ships
Officer personnel
Ordnance
Ozone
Palau Islands
Post exchanges
Presidential appointments
Protection of officials
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development facilities
Retired military personnel
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Security clearances
Small business
Smog
Smuggling
Soldiers' homes
South Asia
South Korea
Special forces (Military science)
Student loan funds
Submarines
Sunset legislation
Surrogate mothers
Survivors' benefits
Technical assistance
Technological innovations
Terrorism
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Virginia
Wages
Warrants (Law)
Warships
Washington State
Weapons of mass destruction
Western Hemisphere
Whistle blowing
Women
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2008 for military operations and military construction.
 
Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement; (2) the Rapid Acquisition Fund and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation, including ballistic missile defense; (4) operation and maintenance, including defense working capital funds, the defense health program, chemical agents and munitions destruction, and environmental restoration; (5) active and reserve military personnel, including end strengths; and (6) increased costs due to the Global War on Terror for military activities and military construction.
 
Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) active and reserve military personnel, including officer personnel policy; (2) military education and training, including military justice and defense dependents' education; (3) military pay and allowances; (4) retired pay and survivor benefits, including Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) matters; (5) military health care; (6) acquisition policy and management; (7) DOD organization and management, including intelligence-related matters; (8) financial, counterdrug, and homeland security matters; (9) civilian personnel matters; and (10) matters relating to other nations, including nonproliferation.
 
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007[
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1911-1912)
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate