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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1666 

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to improve the process for 

congressional consideration of international social security agreements. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 20, 2007 

Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. GRASSLEY) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance 

A BILL 

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to improve 

the process for congressional consideration of international social security agreements. 

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

3 SECTION 1. CONSIDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL 

4 SECURITY AGREEMENTS. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 233(e) of the Social Secu6 rity Act (42 U.S.C. 433(e)) is amended— 

7 (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘effective’’ the 

8 first place it appears and all that follows through 

9 the period and inserting ‘‘effective— 


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1 ‘‘(A) if, and only if, an approval resolution re2 garding such agreement has passed both Houses of 

3 Congress and has been enacted into law in accord4 ance with paragraph (3); and 

5 ‘‘(B) on any date, provided in the agreement, 

6 that occurs after the enactment of such an approval 

7 resolution.’’; and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(3)(A) For purposes of paragraph (2), the term ‘ap10 proval resolution’ means a joint resolution, the matter 

11 after the resolving clause of which is as follows: ‘That the 

12 proposed agreement entered into pursuant to section 233 

13 of the Social Security Act between the United States and 

14 lllllll establishing an international social secu15 rity agreement with respect to the social security system 

16 established by title II of such Act and the social security 

17 system of lllllll, transmitted to Congress by 

18 the President on llllll, is hereby approved.’, the 

19 first 2 blanks therein being filled with the name of the 

20 country with which the United States entered into the 

21 agreement, and the 3rd blank therein being filled with the 

22 date of the transmittal of the agreement to Congress. 

23 ‘‘(B) Whenever a document setting forth an agree24 ment entered into under this section and the report re25 quired under paragraph (1) is transmitted to Congress, 


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1 copies of such document and report shall be delivered to 

2 both Houses of Congress on the same day and shall be 

3 delivered to the Clerk of the House of Representatives if 

4 the House is not in session and to the Secretary of the 

5 Senate if the Senate is not in session. 

6 ‘‘(C) On the day on which such document and report 

7 are transmitted to the House of Representatives and the 

8 Senate, an approval resolution with respect to such agree9 ment shall be introduced (by request) in the House by the 

10 majority leader of the House, for himself or herself and 

11 the minority leader of the House, or by Members of the 

12 House designated by the majority leader and minority 

13 leader of the House; and shall be introduced (by request) 

14 in the Senate by the majority leader of the Senate, for 

15 himself or herself and the minority leader of the Senate, 

16 or by Members of the Senate designated by the majority 

17 leader and minority leader of the Senate. If either House 

18 is not in session on the day on which such an agreement 

19 is transmitted, the approval resolution with respect to 

20 such agreement shall be introduced in that House, as pro21 vided in the preceding sentence, on the first day thereafter 

22 on which that House is in session. The resolution intro23 duced in the House of Representatives shall be referred 

24 to the Committee on Ways and Means and the resolution 


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1 introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Com2 mittee on Finance.’’. 

3 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The heading for 

4 section 233(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 433(e)) is amended 

5 by inserting ‘‘PROCESS FOR APPROVAL;’’ after ‘‘REPORTS

6 TO CONGRESS;’’. 

7 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

8 this section apply to international social security agree9 ments described in section 233 of the Social Security Act 

10 (42 U.S.C. 433) that first take effect after January 1, 

11 2007. 

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