Fiscal year 2003 security assistance legislation and funding allocations

DISAM Journal, Spring, 2003 by Kenneth W. Martin

* P.L. 107-228: Security Assistance Act of 2002, Division B, P.L. 107-228, 30 September 2002.

* P.L. 107-248: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003, P.L. 107-248, 23 October 2002.

* P.L. 107-314: Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, P.L. 107-314, 2 December 2002.

* P.L. 107-327: Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, P.L. 107-327,4 December 2002.

* P.L. 108-7: Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, P.L. 108-7,20 February 2003.

* P.L. 108-7: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2003, Division E, P.L. 108-7, 20 February 2003.

* P.L. 108-11: Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003, P.L. 108-11, 16 April 2003.

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2003, Division E, P.L. 108-7, 20 February 2003

* Enacted as Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, P.L. 108-7, 20 February 2003 (H.J. Res 2). The original bills were reported out of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees of the 107th Congress as HR5410 (H.Rpt. 107-663) on 19 September 2003 and S2779 (S.Rpt. 107-2 19) on 18 July 2003, respectively, with no floor action taken by either house before the end-of-session recess. The Conference Report was ordered printed 13 February 2003 as H.Rpt. 108-10. Table 1 displays the funding initially appropriated within Division E for the four traditional security assistance appropriations programs - FMFP, IMET, ESF, and Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) which amounted to a total of $6,562,000,000.

** H.J. Res 2 was originally introduced in the House of the newly convened 108th Congress on 7 January 2003 as a continuing resolution (CR) for FY2003 to extend spending authority to 31 January 2003. It was passed by the House on 8 January and passed to the Senate for consideration. On 15 January, Senator Stevens of the Senate Appropriations Committee introduced the very lengthy S. Amdt 1 into H.J. Res 2 which included the remaining eleven (11) FY2003 appropriations for the fiscal year. The Defense (HR5010) and Military Construction (HR5011) bills were previously passed by the 107th Congress and enacted on 23 October 2002. The Senate passed the resolution with the amendment on 23 January and a conference was convened to negotiate the differences. The conference report for H.J. Res 2 was published 13 February as H. Rpt. 108-10. The revised legislation was passed by both Houses also on 13 February and enacted by the President on 20 February as P.L. 108-7.

** However, Division N, Title VI, Section 601, of the same P.L. 108-7 directed an across-the-board rescission (reduction) of any discretionary account within any FY2003 appropriations act by .65 percent. Certain few non-state, defense, and foreign assistance appropriations were exempted from this rescission. For security assistance, this amounted to an overall rescission of $42,654,000. As also indicated in Table 1, the reduction resulted in the final security assistance appropriations figure of $6,519,346,000.