Guarding Readiness Resources Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3627 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3627

 To provide for the crediting of funds received by the National Guard 
                  Bureau as reimbursement from States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2021

Mr. Ryan (for himself, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mrs. Bustos, and 
  Mr. Case) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the crediting of funds received by the National Guard 
                  Bureau as reimbursement from States.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Guarding Readiness Resources Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF FUNDS RECEIVED BY NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU AS 
              REIMBURSEMENT FROM STATES.

    Section 710 of title 32, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Treatment of Reimbursed Funds.--(1) Any funds received by the 
National Guard Bureau from a State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, as reimbursement 
under this section for the use of military property, shall be--
            ``(A) credited to--
                    ``(i) the appropriation, fund, or account used in 
                incurring the obligation; or
                    ``(ii) an appropriate appropriation, fund, or 
                account currently available for the purposes for which 
                the expenditures were made; and
            ``(B) treated as a reprogramming request, pursuant to which 
        such funds may not be obligated or disbursed until after the 
        Chief of the National Guard Bureau--
                    ``(i) submits a written request (including a budget 
                for the use of such funds, disaggregated by 
                appropriation and subactivity group) to the 
                Subcommittees on Defense of the Committees on 
                Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
                Representatives for authorization; and
                    ``(ii) receives such authorization.
    ``(2) Not later than October 31 of each year, the Chief of the 
National Guard Bureau shall submit to the Subcommittees on Defense of 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
Representatives an annual accounting of the use of the funds described 
in paragraph (1), disaggregated by appropriation and subactivity group, 
during the immediately preceding fiscal year.''.
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