Deterring Chinese Preemptive Strikes Act of 2023

Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1566 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1566

   To require the Secretary of Defense to identify certain aircraft 
 shelters for aviation assets in the Indo-Pacific region and submit a 
  plan to make improvements to such shelters, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 2023

   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 require the Secretary of Defense to identify certain aircraft 
 shelters for aviation assets in the Indo-Pacific region and submit a 
  plan to make improvements to such shelters, 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 ``Deterring Chinese Preemptive Strikes 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO CERTAIN AIRCRAFT SHELTERS FOR AVIATION 
              ASSETS IN INDO-PACIFIC REGION.

    (a) Identification of Aircraft Shelters.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a 
        classified survey to identify each United States aircraft 
        shelter in the Indo-Pacific region, including in the First, 
        Second, and Third Island Chains, that--
                    (A) is responsible for responding to aggression by 
                the People's Republic of China against Taiwan; and
                    (B) has not been improved to mitigate damage to 
                aircraft in the event of a missile, aerial drone, or 
                other form of attack by the People's Republic of China.
            (2) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
        the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the results 
        of the survey under paragraph (1).
    (b) Plan.--Not later than 60 days after the date on which the 
report required by paragraph (2) of subsection (a) is submitted, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a plan to implement improvements to the shelters identified 
under that subsection so as to increase aircraft survivability in the 
event of a missile, aerial drone, or other form of attack by the 
People's Republic of China.
    (c) Form.--The report and plan required by this section shall be 
submitted in classified form.
    (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
        Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
        Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
        Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
        House of Representatives.
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