Rescission Act

Rescission Act of 1946
Long title	An Act reducing or further reducing certain appropriations and contractual authorizations available for the fiscal year 1946, and for other purposes.
Nicknames	Second Supplemental Surplus Appropriation Rescission Act, 1946
Enacted by	the 79th United States Congress
Effective	February 18, 1946
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 79–301
Statutes at Large	60 Stat. 6
Legislative history
	Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on February 18, 1946;
Major amendments
	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The Rescission Act of 1946 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 79–301, H.R. 5158, 60 Stat. 6, enacted February 18, 1946, codified at 38 U.S.C. § 107) is a law of the United States reducing (rescinding) the amounts of certain funds already designated for specific government programs, much of it for the U.S. military, after World War II concluded and as American military and public works spending diminished.

Among its provisions was the option for transferring $200 million previously appropriated to the U.S. Army for ordnance service and supplies to the Army of the Philippines, with the proviso that military service for the Philippines during World War II, while it was in service of the United States Army Forces in the Far East pursuant to the presidential Military Order of July 26, 1941,^[2] would not be considered to be military service for the United States.

The effect was to retroactively annul benefits to Filipino troops for their military service under the auspices of the United States while the Philippines was a U.S. unincorporated territory and Filipinos were U.S. nationals.

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^ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (July 26, 1941). "Military Order: Organized Military Forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Called Into Service of the Armed Forces of the United States" (PDF). In National Archives of the United States (ed.). Federal Register. Vol. 6. p. 3825.

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[FedReg1941-2] Roosevelt, Franklin D. (July 26, 1941). "Military Order: Organized Military Forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Called Into Service of the Armed Forces of the United States" (PDF). In National Archives of the United States (ed.). Federal Register. Vol. 6. p. 3825.

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