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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3499 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3499

To provide emergency acquisition authority for purposes of replenishing 
                       United States stockpiles.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 2023

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Rubio) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL

 
To provide emergency acquisition authority for purposes of replenishing 
                       United States stockpiles.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Securing American Acquisitions, 
Readiness, and Military Stockpiles Act of 2023'' or the ``Securing 
American ARMS Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY ACQUISITION AUTHORITY.

    Section 3601(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(iv), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) with respect to an armed attack by a country 
                of concern (as defined in section 1(m) of the State 
                Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 
                2651a(m)), to which the United States is not a party, 
                for purposes of--
                            ``(i) replenishing United States stockpiles 
                        of defense articles when such stockpiles are 
                        diminished as a result of the United States 
                        providing defense articles in response to such 
                        armed attack by a country of concern against--
                                    ``(I) a United States ally (as that 
                                term is defined in section 201(d) of 
                                the Act of December 2, 1942, titled `To 
                                provide benefits for the injury, 
                                disability, death, or enemy detention 
                                of employees of contractors with the 
                                United States, and for other purposes' 
                                (56 Stat. 1028, chapter 668; 42 U.S.C. 
                                1711(d))); or
                                    ``(II) a United States partner; or
                            ``(ii) contracting for the movement or 
                        delivery of defense articles transferred to 
                        such ally or partner through the President's 
                        drawdown authorities under sections 506(a)(1) 
                        and 614 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
                        (22 U.S.C. 2318(a)(1) and 2364) in connection 
                        with such response.''.
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