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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3288 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3288

To authorize the President to remove commercial satellites and related 
  components from the United States Munitions List subject to certain 
                 restrictions, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 1, 2011

  Mr. Berman (for himself, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. 
    Coffman of Colorado, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. 
 Connolly of Virginia, Mr. Chaffetz, and Mr. Heinrich) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
To authorize the President to remove commercial satellites and related 
  components from the United States Munitions List subject to certain 
                 restrictions, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Safeguarding United States Satellite 
Leadership and Security Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO REMOVE SATELLITES AND RELATED COMPONENTS FROM THE 
              UNITED STATES MUNITIONS LIST.

    Subject to section 5, the President is authorized to remove 
commercial satellites and related components from the United States 
Munitions List, consistent with the procedures in section 38(f) of the 
Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778(f)).

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON SATELLITE SALES TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
              CHINA.

    No satellite or related component may be transferred to, directly 
or indirectly, or launched into outer space by, the Government of the 
People's Republic of China or any entity or person of the People's 
Republic of China.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON SATELLITE SALES TO STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM 
              AND NORTH KOREA.

    No satellite or related component may be transferred to, directly 
or indirectly, or launched into outer space by, the Government of Cuba, 
Iran, Sudan, Syria, or North Korea or any entity or person of Cuba, 
Iran, Sudan, Syria, or North Korea.

SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The President may not exercise the authority provided in section 2 
of this Act before--
            (1) the date that is 90 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act,
            (2) the date on which the President submits to Congress a 
        determination that the transfer of commercial satellites from 
        the United States Munitions List does not pose an unacceptable 
        risk to the national security of the United States, or
            (3) the date on which the President submits to Congress a 
        report regarding the risk-mitigating licensing controls, 
        procedures, and safeguards the President will put in place to 
        reduce such risk to an absolute minimum,
whichever occurs last.

SEC. 6. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``United States Munitions List'' means the 
list referred to in section 38(a)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
U.S.C. 2778(a)(1)).
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