I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 9 
To direct the President to develop a plan for the United States to meet 
its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2019 
Ms. CASTOR of Florida (for herself, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. HOYER, Mr. PALLONE, 
Mr. ENGEL, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. NEAL, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. NADLER, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Ms. BONAMICI, 
Mr. LEVIN of California, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. NEGUSE, 
Mr. CASTEN of Illinois, Mr. LUJA´N, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. 
BEYER, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. PORTER, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. 
SOTO, Mr. GALLEGO, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. 
MALINOWSKI, Mr. CISNEROS, Mr. CRIST, Ms. NORTON, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. 
ROUDA, Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. COHEN, Mr. PA-
NETTA, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. COURTNEY, Ms. FRANKEL, Mr. CUMMINGS, 
Mr. WELCH, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. HIGGINS of New 
York, Mr. TONKO, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. THOMPSON of 
California, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. KILMER, Ms. SPANBERGER, Ms. BLUNT 
ROCHESTER, Mr. ROSE of New York, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. DAVIS of 
California, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. LARSEN of 
Washington, Mr. MCNERNEY, Ms. DEAN, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 
LEVIN of Michigan, Mrs. TRAHAN, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. 
HAALAND, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mr. RUP-
PERSBERGER, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHRIER, and Ms. KUSTER of New 
Hampshire) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the President to develop a plan for the United 
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States to meet its nationally determined contribution 
under the Paris Agreement, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Climate Action Now 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) In Paris, on December 12, 2015, parties to 
the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-
mate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agree-
ment to combat climate change and to accelerate 
and intensify the actions and investments needed for 
a sustainable low carbon future. 
(2) The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to 
strengthen the global response to the threat of cli-
mate change by keeping a global temperature rise 
well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial lev-
els and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature in-
crease even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. 
(3) The Paris Agreement requires all parties to 
put forward their best efforts through nationally de-
termined contributions (NDCs) and to strengthen 
these efforts in the years ahead. 
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