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Use DA Form 3900 when you need to bills register supplies and services nonpersonal. Full title: BILLS REGISTER SUPPLIES AND SERVICES NONPERSONAL. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 09/01/1972, status ACTIVE, 2 page(s), roughly 200 fields.
ASA (FM&C) is the proponent, not stated the prescribing authority. Read the directive only if something about your situation departs from the standard case. Otherwise the form is filled by the individual it describes, or by the records clerk keeping the file, and reviewed through the printed signature blocks.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF on offer. Typing means fillable pdf, where the boxes accept keystrokes and hold them on save. Handwriting means printable pdf, a flat page image sent straight to a printer. Neither version changes what appears on the page.
A standalone reader is the safe choice for fillable work. Browser viewers vary in whether entered data survives the session, and there is no warning when it does not; a one-field save test settles it in seconds.
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What the form asks for
- ADDRESS
- ADD_B
- AMNT_CB
- AMNT_CB_1
- AMNT_CB_10
- AMNT_CB_11
- AMNT_CB_12
- AMNT_CB_13
- AMNT_CB_14
- AMNT_CB_15
- AMNT_CB_16
- AMNT_CB_17
- AMNT_CB_18
- AMNT_CB_19
- AMNT_CB_2
- AMNT_CB_20
- AMNT_CB_21
- AMNT_CB_22
- AMNT_CB_23
- AMNT_CB_3
- AMNT_CB_4
- AMNT_CB_5
- AMNT_CB_6
- AMNT_CB_7
Start at the top and get the header exactly right. Official spelling of the name, identification number, unit, date. Everything downstream finds the record through those entries; nothing else on the page has that consequence.
Tabbing beats clicking for coverage. The order was set at build time and tracks the page layout, so following it leaves no gaps. Boxes and buttons are clicked; where options are exclusive, one selection cancels another by design. Watch field width on long entries: one-line fields have no wrap, and what runs past the edge disappears in print though the screen still shows it. Move that text to remarks or a continuation. Never leave an inapplicable field empty — enter the nil mark, because a reviewer cannot distinguish a skipped question from a considered answer.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
Routing follows not stated and nothing else — a named office, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file, according to why the form was raised. Copy it before it leaves. Retention is fixed by the records schedule for the series, which local practice does not shorten or extend.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with ASA (FM&C) or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 3900?
- BILLS REGISTER SUPPLIES AND SERVICES NONPERSONAL
- Which edition is current?
- 09/01/1972
- Who is responsible for this form?
- ASA (FM&C)
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- 41-ITEM ALSO PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA