102 STAT. 2050
PUBLIC LAW 100-456—SEPT. 29, 1988 TITLE XII—GENERAL PROVISIONS PART A—FINANCIAL AND BUDGET MATTERS
SEC. 1201. TRANSFER AUTHORITY
(a) AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER AUTHORIZATIONS.—(1) Upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary in the national interest, the Secretary may transfer amounts of authorizations made available to the Department of Defense in title I, II, or III for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for that fiscal year (or any subdivisions thereof). Amounts of authorizations so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. (2) The total amount of authorizations for any fiscal year that the Secretary of Defense may transfer under the authority of this section may not exceed $3,000,000,000. (\}) LIMITATIONS.—The authority provided by this section to transfer authorizations— (1) may only be used to provide authority for items that have a higher priority than the items from which authority is transferred; and (2) may not be used to provide authority for an item that has been denied authorization by Congress. (c) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of Defense shall promptly notify Congress of transfers made under the authority of this section. SEC. 1202. INCREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 1988 DEFENSE FUNDS TRANSFER AUTHORIZATION
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Section 1201 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (Public Law 100-180; 101 Stat. 1153) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by inserting "of this Act or any prior defense authorization Act' in paragraph (1) before for any fiscal year"; and (B) by striking out "$2,000,000,000" in paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof "$4,000,000,000"; and (2) by striking out subsection (d) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(d) SPECIFIED PURPOSES.—In determining the purposes for which the authority provided by subsection (a) will be used, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that to the extent that the total dollar amount of transfers under such authority exceeds $2,000,000,000, an appropriate portion of that authority is used to transfer to military personnel accounts and operation and maintenance accounts of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1988 (1) funds for depot maintenance activities in amounts sufficient to reduce service backlogs which would otherwise occur, (2) funds for pay of civilian personnel in amounts sufficient to reduce furloughs, reductions-inforce, or release of on-call employees into a nonpay status which would otherwise be required due to insufficient funding for civilian personnel of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1988, and (3) funds for pay of military personnel. "(e) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress notice of each transfer made under the authority of this section. After the total dollar amount of such transfers equals or
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