To expand the oversight and accounting authority of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction over funds appropriated for the Iraq Security Forces Fund and to restore a termination date for the Office based on the percentage of expenditures from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund and the Iraq Security Forces Fund.

Provides that, for purposes of carrying out the duties of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Inspector General), any funds appropriated or otherwise made available for FY2007 for the Iraq Security Forces Fund shall be treated as amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.

Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 to terminate the Office of the Inspector General ten months after the date on which 80 percent of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to both the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund and the Iraq Security Forces Fund have been expended.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6313 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6313

 To expand the oversight and accounting authority of the Office of the 
     Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction over funds 
    appropriated for the Iraq Security Forces Fund and to restore a 
termination date for the Office based on the percentage of expenditures 
  from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund and the Iraq Security 
                              Forces Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 2006

Mr. Skelton (for himself, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Abercrombie, Mrs. Tauscher, 
     Mr. Cooper, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Larsen of 
  Washington, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Boren, and Mr. Udall of 
  Colorado) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL



 To expand the oversight and accounting authority of the Office of the 
     Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction over funds 
    appropriated for the Iraq Security Forces Fund and to restore a 
termination date for the Office based on the percentage of expenditures 
  from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund and the Iraq Security 
                              Forces Fund.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ 
              RECONSTRUCTION.

    (a) Additional Duties of Office.--For purposes of carrying out the 
duties of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction under 
section 3001(f) of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for 
Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 
(Public Law 108-106; 117 Stat. 1235; 5 U.S.C. App., note to section 8G 
of Public Law 95-452), any United States funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available for fiscal year 2007 for the Iraq Security 
Forces Fund pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
1516 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2440), shall be deemed to be 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to the Iraq Relief and 
Reconstruction Fund.
    (b) Termination Provision.--Subsection (o) of section 3001 of the 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the 
Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108-106; 117 
Stat. 1234; 5 U.S.C. App., note to section 8G of Public Law 95-452), is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(o) Termination.--The Office of the Inspector General shall 
terminate on the date that is 10 months after the date, as determined 
by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, on which both--
            ``(1) 80 percent of the amounts appropriated or otherwise 
        made available to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund by 
        chapter 2 of title II of this Act and any subsequent law have 
        been expended; and
            ``(2) 80 percent of the amounts appropriated or otherwise 
        made available to the Iraq Security Forces Fund pursuant to the 
        authorization of appropriations in section 1516 of the John 
        Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 
        (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2440) and any subsequent law 
        have been expended.''.
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