SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ALLIED DEFENSE BURDENSHARING.

SEC. 1214. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ALLIED DEFENSE BURDENSHARING. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the efforts of the President to increase defense burdensharing by allied and friendly nations deserve strong support; and (2) host nation support agreements with those nations in which United States military personnel are assigned to permanent duty ashore should be negotiated consistent with section 1221(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105–85; 50 U.S.C. 1541(a)(1)), which sets forth a goal of obtaining from any such host nation financial contributions that amount to 75 percent of the nonpersonnel 115 STAT. 1252costs incurred by the United States Government for stationing United States military personnel in that nation.