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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1976 

To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992, 

while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 22, 2015 

Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 

Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 

each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative 

Measure Number 37 of 1992, while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nuclear Weapons Abo5 lition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2015’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLI2 TION AND ECONOMIC AND ENERGY CONVER3 SION. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Government 

5 shall— 

6 (1) provide leadership to negotiate and enter 

7 into a multilateral treaty or other international 

8 agreement by the date that is three years after the 

9 date of the enactment of this Act that provides for— 

10 (A) the dismantlement and elimination of 

11 all nuclear weapons in every country by not 

12 later than 2022; and 

13 (B) strict and effective international con14 trol of such dismantlement and elimination; 

15 (2) redirect resources that are being used for 

16 nuclear weapons programs to use— 

17 (A) in converting all nuclear weapons in18 dustry employees, processes, plants, and pro19 grams smoothly to constructive, ecologically 

20 beneficial peacetime activities, including strict 

21 control of all fissile material and radioactive 

22 waste, during the period in which nuclear weap23 ons must be dismantled and eliminated pursu24 ant to the treaty or other international agree25 ment described in paragraph (1); and 


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1 (B) in addressing human and infrastruc2 ture needs, including development and deploy3 ment of sustainable carbon-free and nuclear4 free energy sources, health care, housing, edu5 cation, agriculture, and environmental restora6 tion, including long-term radioactive waste mon7 itoring; 

8 (3) undertake vigorous, good-faith efforts to 

9 eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military oper10 ations; and 

11 (4) actively promote policies to induce all other 

12 countries to join in the commitments described in 

13 this subsection to create a more peaceful and secure 

14 world. 

15 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a)(2) shall take 

16 effect on the date on which the President certifies to Con17 gress that all countries possessing nuclear weapons have— 

18 (1) eliminated such weapons; or 

19 (2) begun such elimination under established 

20 legal requirements comparable to those described in 

21 subsection (a). 

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