To limit the availability of amounts authorized to be appropriated for overseas contingency operations pending relief from the spending limits under the Budget Control Act of 2011.

SA 1521. Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Hirono, Mrs.
Gillibrand, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Durbin, Mr.
Blumenthal, Mr. Brown, Mr. King, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Heinrich,
Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Reid, Mr. Tester, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms.
Stabenow, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Markey, Mr. Casey, Mrs. Murray, and Mr.
Franken) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA
1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the
Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XV, add the following:

SEC. 1523. LIMITATION ON THE AVAILABILITY OF OVERSEAS
CONTINGENCY OPERATION FUNDING SUBJECT TO RELIEF
FROM THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT.

(a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title, of the total amount authorized to be appropriated
by this title for overseas contingency operations, not more
than $50,950,000,000 may be available for obligation and
expenditure unless--
(1) the discretionary spending limits imposed by section
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended by section 302 of the Budget Control
Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25), on appropriations for the
revised security category and the revised nonsecurity
category are eliminated or increased in proportionally equal
amounts for fiscal year 2016 by any other Act enacted after
December 26, 2013; and
(2) if the revised security and the revised nonsecurity
category are increased as described in paragraph (1), the
amount of the increase is equal to or greater than the amount
in excess of the $50,950,000,000 that is authorized to be
appropriated by this title for security category activities.
(b) Use of Funds Available Under Satisfaction of
Limitation.--
(1) Transfer.--Any amounts authorized to be appropriated by
this title in excess of $50,950,000,000 that are available
for obligation and expenditure pursuant to subsection (a)
shall be transferred to applicable accounts of the Department
of Defense providing funds for programs, projects, and
activities other than for overseas contingency operations.
Any amounts so transferred to an account shall be merged with
amounts in the account to which transferred and available
subject to the same terms and conditions as otherwise apply
to amounts in such account.
(2) Construction of authority.--The authority to transfer
amounts under this subsection is in addition to any other
transfer authority in this Act.
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