The Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (proposed as H.R.

The authorization bill determines the agencies responsible for defense, establishes funding levels, and sets the policies under which money will be spent.

4435, the Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Armed Services on May 8, 2014.

[6] A provision to authorize special immigrant visas for certain Afghan allies would increase direct spending by $70 million over that 10-year period.

Those costs would be offset by a provision that would increase, by $70 million, receipts from sales of material from the National Defense Stockpile.

[9] The bill that was passed began as an unrelated provision, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act.

Sections 841 to 843 of the Act, known at the Never Contract with the Enemy Act, require the United States Secretary of Defense to establish programs in each of its global military commands to ensure that contracting, grant awarding and formation of cooperative agreements do not facilitate the payment of funds (or the provision of goods and services in kind) to persons or entities which are "actively opposing United States or coalition forces involved in a contingency operation in which members of the Armed Forces are actively involved in hostilities".

[10] The Act has extended to a global context similar provisions which related only to combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.