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S.3930 (As Passed) Military Commissions Act of 2006 S.3930-1 (January 3, 2006)

handle is hein.leghis/mca0010 and id is 1 raw text is: S. 3930 One Flundred Rinth Congress of the 'United .tatts of gmrica AT THE SECOND SESSION Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and six an act To authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Military Commissions Act of 2006. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Construction of Presidential authority to establish military commissions. Sec. 3. Military commissions. Sec. 4. Amendments to Uniform Code of Military Justice. Sec. 5. Treaty obligations not establishing grounds for certain claims. Sec. 6. Implementation of treaty obligations. Sec. 7. Habeas corpus matters. Sec. 8. Revisions to Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 relating to protection of certain United States Government personnel. Sec. 9. Review of judgments of military commissions. Sec. 10. Detention covered by review of decisions of Combatant Status Review Tri- bunals of propriety of detention. SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH MILITARY COMMISSIONS. The authority to establish military commissions under chapter 47A of title 10, United States Code, as added by section 3(a), may not be construed to alter or limit the authority of the President under the Constitution of the United States and laws of the United States to establish military commissions for areas declared to be under martial law or in occupied territories should circumstances so require. SEC. 3. MILITARY COMMISSIONS. (a) MILITARY COMMISSIONS.- (1) IN GENERAL.-Subtitle A of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 47 the following new chapter: CHAPTER 47A-MILITARY COMMISSIONS Subchapter ' . G en eral P rovision s ............................................................................................ 948a II. Com position of M ilitary Com m issions ........................................................... 948h III. P re-Trial P rocedure ........................................................................................ 948q IV . T rial P rocedure ............................................................................................... 949a V . S en ten ces .......................................................................................................... 949s

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