DEPOTS Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10046 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10046

    To authorize the Secretary of Defense to eliminate any internal
    Department of Defense depreciated costs or cancel any internal
Department debts associated with depots and arsenal from accounts of a
military department or the Department that are associated with certain
  capital expenditures that no longer generate revenue due to mission
                                changes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 2026

  Mr. Cloud introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL

    To authorize the Secretary of Defense to eliminate any internal
    Department of Defense depreciated costs or cancel any internal
Department debts associated with depots and arsenal from accounts of a
military department or the Department that are associated with certain
  capital expenditures that no longer generate revenue due to mission
                                changes.

    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 ``Defense Expenditure Planning for
Optimizing Throughput and Sustainment Act'' or the ``DEPOTS Act''.

SEC. 2. CAPITAL EXPENDITURE WRITE-OFFS FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPOTS
              AND ARSENALS.

    (a) Write-Offs.--
            (1) In general.--With respect to any depot or arsenal of
        the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense may write-
        off or eliminate any internal Department accounting charges,
        such as remaining depreciation or internal debt from an account
        of a military department or the Department associated with
        capital assets that do not generate revenue due to mission
        realignments directed by the Federal Government.
            (2) Recovery of outlays.--Write-offs under paragraph (1)
        shall be done in a manner than ensures any previous cash outlay
        from a revolving fund is recovered.
            (3) Application of authority.--The authority under
        paragraph (1) applies only to financial balances within the
        accounts of a military department or the Department of Defense,
        not to payments owed to commercial contractors.
    (b) Delegation.--The Secretary may delegate the authority under
subsection (a) to the Secretary of a military department.
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