Subtitle A--Financial Matters
SEC. 1001. GENERAL TRANSFER AUTHORITY. (a) Authority To Transfer Authorizations- (1) AUTHORITY- 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 this division for fiscal year 2009 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) LIMITATION- Except as provided in paragraph (3), the total amount of authorizations that the Secretary may transfer under the authority of this section may not exceed $4,200,000,000. (3) EXCEPTION FOR TRANSFERS BETWEEN MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS- A transfer of funds between military personnel authorizations under title IV shall not be counted toward the dollar limitation in paragraph (2). (b) 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) Effect on Authorization Amounts- A transfer made from one account to another under the authority of this section shall be deemed to increase the amount authorized for the account to which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to the amount transferred. (d) Notice to Congress- The Secretary shall promptly notify Congress of each transfer made under subsection (a).
SEC. 1002. ONE-TIME SHIFT OF MILITARY RETIREMENT PAYMENTS. (a) Reduction of Payments- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amounts that would otherwise be payable from the fund to individuals for the month of August 2013 (with disbursements scheduled for September 2013) shall be reduced by 1 percent. (b) Reversion- Beginning on September 1, 2013 (with disbursements beginning in October 2013), amounts payable to individuals from the fund shall revert back to amounts as specified in law as if the reduction in subsection (a) did not take place. (c) Refund- Any individual who has a payment reduced under subsection (a) shall receive a one-time payment, from the fund, in an amount equal to the amount of such reduction. This one-time payment shall be included with disbursements from the fund scheduled for October 2013. (d) Fund- In this section, the term `fund' refers to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund established by section 1461 of title 10, United States Code. (e) Transfer- Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall transfer $40,000,000 from the unobligated balances of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to the Miscellaneous Receipts Fund of the United States Treasury to offset estimated costs arising from section 702 and the amendments made by such section.
SEC. 1003. MANAGEMENT OF PURCHASE CARDS. (a) Penalties for Violations- Section 2784(c)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking `(1) provide for' and inserting the following:
`(1) provide--
`(A) for the reimbursement of charges for unauthorized or erroneous purchases, in appropriate cases; and `(B) for'.
(b) Required Report- Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report detailing actions to be taken by the Department of Defense to implement the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office in its report titled `Actions Needed to Strengthen Internal Controls to Reduce Fraudulent, Improper, and Abusive Purchases' (GAO-08-333) to improve safeguards and internal controls on the use of agency purchase cards.
SEC. 1004. CODIFICATION OF RECURRING AUTHORITY ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION COMMON-FUNDED BUDGETS. (a) Codification of Authority- (1) IN GENERAL- Subchapter II of chapter 134 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: