S.Amdt. 1420

SA 1420. Mr. SMITH (for himself, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Reid) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. AUTHORIZATION FOR NO-COST SECURE IDENTITY CONTRACTS.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding sections 1342 and 3302 of title 31, United States Code, the Department of Defense is authorized to execute no-cost contracts for vendor secure identity programs such as the Fast Access program, and other similar secure identity programs.

(b) Application.--This section shall apply to existing and future no-cost contracts for secure identity programs.