To provide for burdensharing contributions from allied and other friendly foreign countries for the costs of deployment of any United States missile defense system that is designed to protect those countries from ballistic missile attack.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Missile Defense Burdensharing Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States has established burdensharing 
        arrangements with Japan, member nations of the North Atlantic 
        Treaty Organization (NATO), and other countries to share the 
        costs of common defense efforts and successfully solicited 
        contributions from several countries to offset costs relating 
        to the Persian Gulf War.
            (2) The President has stated that a missile defense system 
        should be deployed to protect allies and other friendly foreign 
        countries as well as the United States.

SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF SCOPE OF MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM; DESIGNATION 
              OF PROTECTED COUNTRIES.

    (a) Determination Relating to Scope of Missile Defense System.--Not 
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President--
            (1) shall determine whether any missile defense system to 
        be developed by the United States is intended to protect the 
        territory of allied or other friendly foreign countries, in 
        addition to the territory of the United States, from ballistic 
        missile attack; and
            (2) shall prepare and transmit to Congress a report 
        containing the determination of the President under paragraph 
        (1).
    (b) Designation of Protected Countries.--If the President makes a 
determination under subsection (a)(1) that a proposed United States 
missile defense system is intended to protect the territory of allied 
or other friendly foreign countries from ballistic missile attack, the 
President--
            (1) shall designate each allied or other friendly foreign 
        country, with respect to which the system is intended to 
        protect, as a protected country for the purposes of this Act, 
        and shall so notify Congress in writing at least 30 days prior 
        to the designation; and
            (2) shall notify Congress in writing at least 30 days prior 
        to the termination of a designation of a country.
    (c) Additional Requirement With Respect to Termination of 
Designation of Protected Countries.--
            (1) In general.--As part of the notification to Congress 
        with respect to the termination of a designation of a country 
        as a protected country under subsection (b)(2), the President 
        shall include a description of the reasons for the termination, 
        including an assessment of the effect of the termination on the 
        security relations between the country and the United States 
        and on mutual commitments of the United States under bilateral 
        and multilateral security arrangements, such as the North 
        Atlantic Treaty.
            (2) Notification of involved countries.--The President 
        shall transmit to the government of a country with respect to 
        which the President has terminated the designation of the 
        country as a protected country under subsection (b)(2) a copy 
        of the notification to Congress with respect to such 
        termination.

SEC. 4. BURDENSHARING CONTRIBUTIONS BY PROTECTED COUNTRIES.

    (a) Solicitation of Contributions.--The President shall seek 
financial contributions from each protected country designated by the 
President under section 3(b)(1) commensurate with the country's 
proportional share of protection from the United States missile defense 
system.
    (b) Use of Contributions.--Contributions received pursuant to 
subsection (a) shall be used to offset costs incurred by the United 
States for deployment of the missile defense system, including costs 
relating to procurement, construction, operations, and personnel.

SEC. 5. ANNUAL REPORTS.

    (a) Report by Secretary of Defense.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, acting through 
        the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, shall submit to 
        Congress an annual report that--
                    (A) identifies each foreign country that would 
                receive protection under the missile defense system 
                from ballistic missile attack, irrespective of whether 
                or not the country has been designated by the President 
                under section 3(b)(1) as a protected country; and
                    (B) describes the nature and extent of the 
                protection for each such foreign country.
            (2) Form.--The report shall be submitted in unclassified 
        form, but may contain a classified annex.
    (b) Report by the President.--The President shall transmit to 
Congress as part of the annual budget request a report that--
            (1) describes the extent to which each protected country 
        designated by the President under section 3(b)(1) has provided 
        financial contributions to the United States in accordance with 
        section 4(a);
            (2) describes the proportion of actual and expected 
        contributions by each protected country as a share of overall 
        costs of the missile defense system; and
            (3) describes efforts by the United States to obtain 
        payments from protected countries that have not fully 
        contributed to their share of protection under the missile 
        defense system.

SEC. 6. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

    In this Act, the term ``missile defense system'' does not include a 
theater missile defense system that is designed or deployed to defend 
elements of the United States Armed Forces that are deployed outside 
the United States.

Summary: Missile Defense Burdensharing Act of 2001 - Directs the President to: (1) determine whether any missile defense system to be developed by the United States is intended to protect, in addition to US territory, the territory of allied or other friendly countries from ballistic missile attack. And (2) seek financial contributions from each protected country, if any, commensurate with their proportional share of protection from such system.